In this collection of essays, most of which are of recent vintage, and
seven of which appear here for the first time, Christopher S. Hill
addresses a large assortment of philosophical issues. Part I presents
a deflationary theory of truth, argues that semantic properties like
reference and correspondence with fact can also be characterized in
deflationary terms, and offers an account of the value of these 'thin'
properties, tracing it to their ability to track more substantial
properties that are informational or epistemic in character. Part II
defends the view that conscious experiences are type-identical with
brain states. It addresses a large array of objections to this
identity thesis, including objections based on the alleged multiple
realizability of experiences, and objections based on Cartesian
intuitions about the modeal separability of mind and matter. In the
end, however, it maintains that theories of experience based on
type-identity should give way to representationalist accounts. Part
III presents a representationalist solution to the mind-body problem.
It argues that all awareness, including awareness of qualia, is
governed by a Kantian appearance/reality distinction--a distinction
between the ways objects and properties are represented as being, and
the ways they are in themselves. It also presents theories of pain and
visual qualia that kick them out of the mind and assign them to
locations in body and the external world. Part IV defends reliabilist
theories of epistemic justification, deploys such theories in
answering Cartesian skepticism, responds critically to Hawthorne's
lottery problem and related proposals about the role of knowledge in
conversation and practical reasoning, presents a new account of the
sources of modeal knowledge, and proposes an account of logical and
mathematical beliefs that represents them as immunune to empirical
revision.
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ISBN
9780191644108
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2020
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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