9 papers in the library · 1 citation · publishing 2022-2026
Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 2026 Artem P. Besedin
Pietro Perconti’s article outlines a cognitive social theory of self-consciousness, navigating between phenomenological views and illusionist perspectives. His argument suggests that rather than being intrinsically valuable, self-consciousness is evolutionarily instrumental, facilitating social cognition. However, both extremes – self-consciousness as the pinnacle of the human spirit and the...
Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 2026 Evgeny V. Loginov
In his paper, Professor Pietro Perconti advocates a social cognition approach to understanding human consciousness, arguing that self-consciousness enhances social cognition. Perconti supports his argument with empirical evidence showing that social cognition capabilities precede the development of self-consciousness in children. However, this paper raises two concerns with his reasoning: the...
Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 2026 Pietro Perconti
The mind has a subjective side. This is evidenced by a number of cognitive processes, including self-consciousness, first-person perspective, qualia, and individual differences in perception and emotion. In the early decades of cognitive science, these types of mental events were studied very cautiously. It was feared that they would compromise the experimental character of the new science of...
Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 2025 V. A. Bazhanov
The article aims to discuss the problem of applicability of quantum-mechanical concepts to the analysis of the mechanisms of brain and the nature of consciousness. Are these tools sufficient and adequate to solve this problem? We claim that despite numerous attempts made in this direction it is difficult to speak about any significant progress. Although the intersection and active interaction...
Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 2025 Viktor D. Bakulov, Danil R. Melnikov
The aim of the article is to analyze Hilary Putnam’s philosophy of mind. The early and late periods of the philosopher's work are analyzed to identify the key ideas of Putnam’s philosophy of mind in each. The early period is characterized by the development of a functionalist approach to the interpretation of mental states. According to functionalism, mental states must be explained in terms of...
Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 2025 Ivan Deviatko
This paper provides reflection how contemporary analytic philosophy of mind applies justification criteria differently to dualism and physicalism. It shows that arguments in favor of dualism often face increased demands for standards of evidence, while the physicalist position is often treated more leniently. Paper shows that such a gap in standards is not necessarily a mistake, but it does...
Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 2025 K. Morozov
This article addresses a normative problem for panpsychist views of consciousness. This problem arises when panpsychism is combined with sentientism. According to sentientism, entities endowed with phenomenal consciousness have a special moral status. According to panpsychism, all entities in the universe have phenomenal consciousness in some form. Synthesizing these positions leads to a...
Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 2024 Maxim Gorbachev 1 citation
A few years ago, an illusionist theory of consciousness appeared in the philosophy of consciousness. It makes an unexpected statement – there is actually no phenomenal consciousness, it is illusory. This illusion is created introspective distortion of physical processes in the brain, which seem to us to have special phenomenal properties. However, an equally strong form of physicalism in the...
Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 2022 M. Sysoev
This article examines the fundamental ontological significance that the category of perception has in philosophy of G.W. Leibniz, and establishes the connection between the category of perception and modern panpsychism. There is a problem of definition of protopsychic properties in modern panpsychism. The problem is expressed not only in the absence of such a definition, but also in the absence...