Abstract Progress in psychology and the cognitive sciences is often taken to vindicate physicalism cast doubt on such extravagant metaphysical theses as dualism idealism. The goal of this paper argue that science has no implications—rather, evidence from largely (but not wholly) irrelevant mind-body problem. Our argument begins with observation data can be modeled by supervenience relations. We...

This chapter argues that quantum indeterminacy can be construed as a merely derivative phenomenon. The possibility of undermines both recent argument against due to David Glick, and an the Elizabeth Barnes.

Abstract This paper presents a distinctively metaphysical version of the problem other minds. The main source this lies in principle that, when it comes to consciousness, no distinction can sensibly be drawn between appearance and reality. I will argue unless we want call that into question, should seriously consider possibility accepting conclusion minds are not like our own. option is less pr...

Hilary Putnam's argument against metaphysical realism (commonly referred to as the "model theoretic argument") has now enjoyed two decades of discussion. 1 The text is rich and contains variously construable arguments against variously construed philosophical positions. David Lewis isolated one argument and called it "Putnam's Paradox".2 That argument is clear and concise; so is the paradoxical...

This paper proposes an interpretation of Nāgārjuna’s doctrine of the two truths that considers saṃvṛti and paramārtha-satya two visions of reality on which the Buddhas, for soteriological and pedagogical reasons, build teachings of two types: respectively in agreement with (for example, the teaching of the Four Noble Truths) or in contrast to (for example, the teaching of emptiness) the categor...