ABSTRACT Simone Weil both embraces and fundamentally alters Christian doctrine to suit her own phenomenological experience of the world. Three major issues to consider in reading Weil as a ‘Christian thinker’ are divine Creation, Christ's Resurrection, and mysticism or the possibility of an embodied union with the divine. This essay will examine all three and ultimately argue that, for Weil,...
Abstract Neutral monism aims at solving the hard problem of consciousness by positing entities that are neither mental nor physical. Benovsky has recently argued for the slightly different account that, rather than being neutral, natural entities are both mental and physical by having different aspects, and then argued in favour of an anti‐realist interpretation of those aspects. In this essay,...
Abstract: This is terribly hard, Thouless, I'm sorry. I have thought over all this for years. … It is now as if we had ploughed furrows in different parts of a field. There is a lot left to do. (Wittgenstein, to a psychologist friend on how hard it is to get clear about experiential concepts) Judging from their writings, most contemporary analytic philosophers have not been persuaded that “the...