ISSN 1477-1756
3 papers in the library · publishing 2003-2024
Think 2024 Cheryl K. Chen
AbstractDo we need justification in order to know God exists? Must we infer God exists, if we are to know that he is there? How might religious experience ground belief in God?
Think 2020 Christopher Searle
What follows is a short thought experiment that aims to show, reductio ad absurdum, that narrow qualia internalism is probably inconsistent with a physicalist/functionalist theory of mind. Those wishing to rebut the argument presented here will need to demonstrate why spatial proximity and the right sort of causal connection of functionally isolated components are necessary to the instantiation...
Think 2003 Oswald Hanfling
You have a rich inner life of conscious experiences. For example, you have pains and other sensations. And you have sensory experiences, such as that produced by chewing on something bitter. Scientists are currently puzzling over how to explain this inner life in scientific terms. Can we, for example, ‘explain’ consciousness by appealing to certain facts about our brains?Here, Oswald Hanfling...