According to a well-known argument against dispositional essentialism, the nature of unmanifested token powers leaves essentialists with an objectionable commitment reality non-existent entities. The idea is that, because are directed at their manifestations, they require those manifestations. Arguably most promising response this works by claiming if properties universals, directedness need on...

! Philosophical discussions of phenomenal consciousness are often cast in the idiom of realism/anti-realism debates. See, for example the “phenomenal realism” discussed by Chalmers (2003), Block (2002), and McLaughlin (2003) as well as the “qualia realism” discussed by Kind (2001), Graham and Horgan (2008), and Hatfield (2007). Often, the realists label themselves as such in the interest of mak...

Abstract In this article the authors identify and analyse points of agreement disagreement between Michael Ayers Charles Travis, starting from their views on ‘things before us’. The then try to spell out what separates these philosophers in matters concerning perception, knowledge language. spite both being self-professed realists, equally critical conceptualism representationalism, Ayers’ empi...

Abstract The discussion of the nature consciousness seems to have stalled, with “hard problem consciousness” in its center, well-defined camps realists and eliminativists at two opposing poles, little none room for agreement between. Recent attempts move this debate forward by shifting them a meta-level heavily relied on notion “intuition”, understood rather liberal way. Against backdrop, goal ...

Recent political theory has seen a wave of interest in the topic compromise. Its conceptualizations tend to be unstable, however, resulting varying and shifting appreciations compromise, not least debates between realists liberal moralists. This article presents new integrated theoretical framework compromise facilitate empirical enquiry. In this framework, every two underlying dimensions (inte...

Many agree that the pilot-wave theory is to be understood as a first-order theory, in which law constrains velocity of particles. However, while Dürr, Goldstein and Zanghì maintain Galilei invariant, Valentini argues such symmetry mathematical but it has no physical significance. Moreover, some wavefunction realists insist not invariant any sense. It been maintained by this disagreement origina...