2 papers in the library · 3 citations · publishing 2012-2025
March 20, 2025 Andrew Melnyk
Abstract We experience the intuition of distinctness when, for example, we attend introspectively to the phenomenal redness of a current visual sensation and it seems to us that that very property could not literally be a physical property of neural activity in a certain tiny region of our brain. The book begins by arguing that the intuition of distinctness underlies certain otherwise puzzling...
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science May 1, 2012 Andrew Melnyk 3 citations
Materialism is nearly universally assumed by cognitive scientists. Intuitively, materialism says that a person's mental states are nothing over and above his or her material states, while dualism denies this. Philosophers have introduced concepts (e.g., realization and supervenience) to assist in formulating the theses of materialism and dualism with more precision, and distinguished among...