(Penultimate Version; final version forthcoming in Erkenntnis) Sara Bernstein Nonreductionists about minds and material objects think they have faced down the challenges posed by widespread causal overdetermination. Famously, Kim attacked nonreductive physicalism about the mental on the grounds that it would involve ubiquitous overdetermination of physical effects by mental and physical propert...

Synopsis: Despite many significant accomplishments, mainstream scientific psychology has not provided a satisfactory theory of mind, or solved the mind-body problem, and physicalist accounts of the mind are approaching their limits without fully accounting for its properties. The computational theory of mind has collapsed, forcing physicalism to retreat into what necessarily constitutes its fin...

Many have urged that the biggest obstacles to a physicalistic understanding of consciousness are the problems raised in connection with the subjectivity of consciousness. These problems are most acutely expressed in consideration of the knowledge argument against physicalism. I develop a novel account of the subjectivity of consciousness by explicating the ways in which mental representations m...

This paper critiques the representationalist account of qualia, focussing on the Representational Naturalism presented by Fred Dretske in Naturalizing the Mind. After laying out Dretske’s theory of qualia and making clear its externalist consequences, I argue that Dretske’s definition is either too liberal or runs into problems defending its requirements, in particular ‘naturalness’ and ‘mental...

We will drop the compactness hypothesis on G in the results of §6, doing this in such a way that problems can be reduced to the compact case. This involves the notions of reductive Lie groups and algebras and Cartan involutions. Let © be a Lie algebra. A subalgebra S c © is called a reductive subaU gebra if the representation ad%\® of ίΐ on © is fully reducible. © is called reductive if it is a...

The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is a monolayer of pigmented cells that requires an active metabolism to maintain outer retinal homeostasis and compensate for oxidative stress. Using 13C metabolic flux analysis in human RPE cells, we found that RPE has an exceptionally high capacity for reductive carboxylation, a metabolic pathway that has recently garnered significant interest because of i...

Lower Lewis acidity boranes demonstrate greater tolerance to combinations of water/strong Brønsted bases than B(C6 F5 )3 , this enables Si-H bond activation by a frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) mechanism to proceed in the presence of H2 O/alkylamines. Specifically, BPh3 has improved water tolerance in the presence of alkylamines as the Brønsted acidic adduct H2 O-BPh3 does not undergo irreversible ...

Geometric invariant theory (GIT) was developed in the 1960s by Mumford in order to construct quotients of reductive group actions on algebraic varieties and hence to construct and study a number of moduli spaces, including, for example, moduli spaces of bundles over a nonsingular projective curve [26, 28]. Moduli spaces often arise naturally as quotients of varieties by algebraic group actions,...

I argue that property dualists cannot hold that minds are physical substances. The focus of my discussion is a property dualism that takes qualia to be sui generis features of reality.