Frontiers in Psychology
2020
Giulia Piredda, Michele Di Francesco
Starting from the discussion on the original set of criteria advanced by Clark and Chalmers (1998) meant to avoid the overextension of the mind, or the so-called cognitive bloat, we will sketch our solution to the problem of criteria evaluation, by connecting it to the search for a mark of the mental. Our proposal is to argue for a "weak conscientialist" mark of the mental based on transparent...
Rivista di Estetica
January 30, 2019
Michele Di Francesco, Alfredo Tomasetta
This paper focuses on the role and value of thought experiments concerning phenomenal consciousness. It is divided in two parts. The first part surveys the philosophical and scientific context in which many well-known thought experiments concerning the mind and consciousness have their roots. In particular it focuses on the problems left open by scientific theories about consciousness and by...
Phenomenology and Mind
November 26, 2016
Michele Di Francesco, Massimo Marraffa, Alfredo Paternoster
4 citations
The current philosophical discussion on the self and consciousness is characterized by a contrast or dilemma between the no-self (eliminativist) perspective, on the one hand, and the arguably naïve account that takes the self as a robust entity, on the other.in order to solve the dilemma, in this paper we suggest restoring a robust theory of the subject based on a bottom-up approach (fully...
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia
December 1, 2015
Michele Di Francesco, Alfredo Tomasetta
This commentary focuses on three aspects of Sandro Nannini's paper Time and Consciusness in Cognitive Naturalism: (1) the parallel between Einstein's theory of relativity and the new science of the mind/brain; (2) the Cartesian characterization of non-reductionist positions in the philosophy of mind;(3) the alleged illusory status of consciousness, free will and the Self.We suggest, first, that...
PARADIGMI
April 1, 2010
Michele Di Francesco
La riflessione contemporanea sulla coscienza si č concentrata sul problema dei qualia, assumendone il carattere fondamentale e sottolineandone la natura di hard problem. Senza voler sottovalutare la rilevanza di questo problema per temi quali la tenuta del fisicalismo o la natura del nesso psicofisico, č sorprendente come uno spazio molto minore sia stato dedicato a un fenomeno altrettanto...