things. Physical things and qualia. Because he frames the world in these wellestablished dualistic terms, these spooky metaphysical ‘abstract things’ leave him puzzled. His illusionist version of eliminativism repeats the long-established gesture of eliminating these puzzling things that to seem to him undeniably to exist and yet do not fit the materialist picture (because they seem to him not...
Keith Frankish is a British-Greek philosopher mainly specializing in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology. He is an Honorary Reader in philosophy at the University of Sheffield, UK, a Visiting Research Fellow with The Open University, UK, and an Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Programme at the University of Crete. Alongside many published papers, Frankish is the author...
Paul Stenner is not persuaded by the illusionist view presented in my interview with Katarína Sklutová. In fact, he thinks I am a trickster, who is not only defending a position I call ‘illusionism’ but perpetrating an intellectual illusion myself. He suggests that my arguments against qualia are a piece of misdirection, designed to deceive readers into accepting that we should eliminate the...
Human AffairsApril 1, 2019Alena Kajanová, Tomáš Mrhálek4 citations
Abstract The aim of our paper is to analyze the position the psychedelic trance subculture takes on drug use and whether it applies to prescriptive regulatory systems on drug-taking. A qualitative field research strategy was adopted with the use of semi-structured interviews and participant observations. Actors at three levels of participation in the subculture (experts, long-term participants...