Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
April 6, 2026
K. E. Morozov
According to illusionism, there is no phenomenal consciousness, only an illusion of it. Since the phenomenal character of experience plays an important role in explaining and justifying its normative status, illusionism faces a normative problem. The problem is that illusionism, by denying phenomenal experience, potentially undermines our moral commitments. In this article, I defend the...
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
April 6, 2026
M. D. Gorbachev
The article is devoted to the question of the compatibility between the illusionist theory of consciousness and the widely accepted sentientist approach to the justification of moral status. Illusionism denies the existence of phenomenal consciousness and qualia, claiming that we are disposed to believe that they exist due to a systematic introspective distortion. If phenomenal consciousness...
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
December 23, 2025
M. S. Sysoev
The paper examines the relationship between certain problems in the philosophy of mind. The discussion begins by identifying methodological obstacles in empirical consciousness research: the mereological fallacy and the fallacy of conflating levels of abstraction. Theoretical issues are addressed: the mind-body problem, the unity of consciousness problem, and the binding problem, situating them...
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
December 23, 2025
R. L. Kochnev
The article contains a historical-philosophical review of recent receptions of Cartesian substantial dualism as an approach to solve the mind-body problem. It examines the genesis of Descartes’ dualistic metaphysics, its core arguments (including the modal argument of conceivability), and its characteristic systematic challenges such as the problem of the causal interaction between...
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
October 2, 2025
K. E. Morozov
This article is a critical response to Roman Kochnev’s Parfitian Teletransportation or Error Management and Andrei Nekhaev’s Teletransportation, Replication and Mereology. It defends the principle of the mereorganic continuity from the criticisms made by Kochnev and Nekhaev. First, the concept of survival is analyzed and how its meanings differ in ordinary speech and in Derek Parfit’s...
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
November 26, 2021
V. A. Sermaksheva
According to animalism, each of us is numerically identical to a human animal. Disunity cases – cases in which a human animal lacks some form of mental unity – are often thought to pose a problem for animalism. Tim Bayne has recently offered some novel arguments against animalism based on one particular disunity case, namely Cerberus: a single animal with two heads, each housing its own stream...