Urban philosophy should move away from language-based and vision-centered models of cognition toward sensorimotor, emotional, and habitual frameworks. The paper argues that marginalizing ocularcentrism and linguistic models improves understanding of urban phenomena and enhances city design and planning. This shift, grounded in cognitive science, emphasizes emotions, habits, and sensorimotor attitudes as key to grasping the urban dimension.
Thought experiments about phenomenal consciousness have a legitimate and valuable role in philosophy. The paper first surveys the philosophical and scientific background of well-known mind-and-consciousness thought experiments, focusing on problems left unresolved by scientific theories and by attempts to reduce mind to the physical world. A case study of the zombie thought experiment shows how a simple, naive intuition generated complex arguments that have enriched philosophical and intellectual landscape. Overall, philosophy addresses properly philosophical questions about the mind and is not a junior partner to cognitive science.
The paper interprets Robert Musil's concept of the "other condition" through the lens of philosophical externalism, particularly the extended mind theory of Andy Clark and David Chalmers. This reading offers one possible perspective on an elusive but central idea in Musil's thought, without claiming to exhaust its complexity or multiple meanings.
Metaphysical naturalism in the philosophy of mind is the thesis that mental facts can be deduced from neurophysiological states. This paper argues that the thesis is false for standard propositional attitudes like beliefs and desires, but can be defended for low-level phenomenal states, or raw feelings. Since higher-order mental states require the neurophysiological mechanisms that constitute raw feelings, the self has a biological basis, and subjectivity can be regarded as a natural phenomenon.