place goes wrong in treating mind-brain relationship clarifying why identity theory is neither reasonable nor a mere scientific problem in disguise

Place Goes Wrong in Treating Mind-brain Relationship Clarifying why identity theory is neither reasonable nor a mere scientific problem in disguise

پِلِیس بر این باور است که مسائل فلسفی مرتبط با ماهیتِ نسبتِ میان ذهن و مغز، در نهایت به­نفعِ مادی­گرایی -خصوصاً نظریه این­همانیِ نوعی- کنار گذاشته یا منحل خواهند شد. او این مدعا را فرضیه­ای علمی و مستدل می­داند. من در این مقاله نشان خواهم داد که ماجرا به­گونه­ای نیست که او می­پندارد. اگر چه این متن، سراسر، حاوی جزئیات فراوانی در باب موضع پِلِیس است ولی به­ منظور فراهم آوردن بستری برای نقد، در ابتدا، روی...

Book Review: Neither Brain nor Ghost: A Non-dualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory

What Price Privacy? - and why identity theft is about neither identity nor theft

It is commonplace to note that in surveys people claim to place a high value on privacy while they paradoxically throw away their privacy in exchange for a free hamburger or a two dollar discount on groceries. The usual conclusion is that people do not really value their privacy as they claim to or that they are irrational about the risks they are taking. Similarly it is generally claimed that ...

A Primary Care Panel Size of 2500 Is neither Accurate nor Reasonable.

Primary care panel sizes are an important component of primary care practices. Determining the appropriate panel size has implications for patient access, physician workload, and care comprehensiveness and will have an impact on quality of care. An often quoted standard panel size is 2500. However, this number seems to arise in the literature anecdotally, without a basis in research. Subsequent...

A Unified Theory of Mind-Brain Relationship: Is It Possible?

The mind-body relationship has vexed philosophers of mind for quite a long time. Different theories of mind have offered different points of view about the interaction between the two, but none of them seem free of ambiguities and questions. This paper attempts to use a mathematical model for mind-body relationship. The model may generate some questions to think about this relationship from the...

Why Quantum Theory is Possibly Wrong

Quantum theory is a tremendously successful physical theory, but nevertheless suffers from two serious problems: the measurement problem and the problem of interpretational underdetermination. The latter, however, is largely overlooked as a genuine problem of its own. Both problems concern the doctrine of realism, but pull, quite curiously, into opposite directions. The measurement problem can ...