William Seager
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 983763 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | William Seager |
| NOMBRES | William |
| APELLIDO | Seager |
| FIRMA | SEAGER W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 10 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism
Theories of Consciousness
Despite recent strides in neuroscience and psychology that have deepened understanding of the brain, consciousness remains one of the greatest philosophical and scientific puzzles. The second edition of Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction and Assessment provides a fresh and up-to-date introduction to a variety of approaches to consciousness, and contributes to the current lively debate about the nature of consciousness and whether a scient…
Theories of Consciousness
The most remarkable fact about the universe is that certain parts of it are conscious. Somehow nature has managed to pull the rabbit of experience out of a hat made of mere matter. Making its own contribution to the current, lively debate about the nature of consciousness, Theories of Consciousness introduces variety of approaches to consciousness and explores to what extent scientific understanding of consciousness is possible. Including discuss…
Emotional introspection
The Taboo of Subjectivity
Introspection and the Elementary Acts of Mind
Fred Dretske a développé, à titre de composante de sa théorie de la conscience, une théorie de I'introspection. Celle-ciprésente une plausibilityé indépendante, elle résiste à des objections qui affectent nombre d'autres théories et elle suggère des liens très féconds dans plusieurs domaines de la science cognitive. La version qu'en donne Dretske est restreinte à la connaissance introspective des états perceptuels. Mon objectif ici est d'étendre …
Theories of consciousness
Kant and the MindAndrew Brook Cambridge
A Note on the ‘Quantum Eraser’
This note aims to make more familiar to philosophers yet another bizarre quantum mechanical effect with disturbing metaphysical implications. It is possible to modify the classic double-slit experiment so that one can register the path of a particle to determine which slit it passes through, and then erase this registered information so that the interference effects which would normally disappear upon registration of the “which path” information …
Supervenience and Mind
Jaegwon Kim is one of the most pre-eminent and most influential contributors to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. This collection of essays presents the core of his work on supervenience and mind with two sets of postscripts especially written for the book. The essays focus on such issues as the nature of causation and events, what dependency relations other than causal relations connect facts and events, the analysis of supervenience, and …
Ground Truth and Virtual Reality
Hacking argues against van Fraassen's constructive empiricism by appeal to features of microscopic imaging. Hacking relies on both our practices involving imaging instruments and the structure of the images produced by these micropractices. Van Fraassen's reply is formally correct yet fundamentally unsatisfying. I aim to strengthen van Fraassen's reply, but must then extend constructive empiricism, specifically the central notion of “theoretical …
Fodor's Theory of Content
Jerry Fodor has recently proposed a new entry into the list of information based approaches to semantic content aimed at explicating the general notion of representation for both mental states and linguistic tokens. The basic idea is that a token means what causes its production. The burden of the theory is to select the proper cause from the sea of causal influences which aid in generating any token while at the same time avoiding the absurdity …
Metaphysics of Consciousness
The Elimination of Experience
Like a leaky roof, the phenomena of consciousness continue to drip cold water on otherwise virtually watertight physicalist pretensions. There are no current prospects for any sort of scientific theory of consciousness and the various speculative attempts to point in the direction of such a theory of consciousness all appear to suffer from the rather basic problem of being, in the words of Thomas Nagel, compatible with its absence (Nagel (1974), …
Externalism and Token Identity
Journal Article Externalism And Token Identity Get access William Seager William Seager Scarborough College, University of Toro Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 169, October 1992, Pages 439–448, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220285 Published: 01 October 1992
Peirce’s teleological signs
Weak Supervenience and Materialism
The concept of supervenience is not new, going back at least to G. E. Moore,' but it is only since Donald Davidson employed the concept in the development of a psycho-physical identity theory' that philosophers have expended any great effort on it in areas beyond ethics. In a series of elegant papers, Jaegwon Kim3 has greatly clarified the issues that arise from the consideration of supervenience, as well as making distinctive applications of the…
Credibility, Confirmation and Explanation
Is Nuclear Deterrence Paradoxical
A paradox is a situation in which two seemingly equally rational lines of thought lead to contradictory conclusions. A moral paradox is a situation where the employment of diverse moral principles, each of which is at least intuitively acceptable to roughly the same degree, leads to radically different moral assessments of one and the same action. In his “Some Paradoxes of Deterrence” Gregory Kavka argues that such moral paradoxes lurk in the con…
The Principle of Continuity and the Evaluation of Theories
Perhaps the Clearest and most impressive use of the Principle of Continuity by Leibniz in the evaluation of a theory is that offered in refutation of the Cartesian laws of motion, as given in his Critical Remarks Concerning the General Part of Descartes' Principles . With regard to the Cartesian laws of impact Leibniz says: On Article 49 . Rule 4. If B, which is moving, is smaller than C, which is at rest, B will be reflected with the velocity it…
Weak Supervenience and Materialism
The concept of supervenience is not new, going back at least to G. E. Moore,' but it is only since Donald Davidson employed the concept in the development of a psycho-physical identity theory' that philosophers have expended any great effort on it in areas beyond ethics. In a series of elegant papers, Jaegwon Kim3 has greatly clarified the issues that arise from the consideration of supervenience, as well as making distinctive applications of the…
Ground Truth and Virtual Reality
Hacking argues against van Fraassen's constructive empiricism by appeal to features of microscopic imaging. Hacking relies on both our practices involving imaging instruments and the structure of the images produced by these micropractices. Van Fraassen's reply is formally correct yet fundamentally unsatisfying. I aim to strengthen van Fraassen's reply, but must then extend constructive empiricism, specifically the central notion of “theoretical …
Fodor's Theory of Content
Jerry Fodor has recently proposed a new entry into the list of information based approaches to semantic content aimed at explicating the general notion of representation for both mental states and linguistic tokens. The basic idea is that a token means what causes its production. The burden of the theory is to select the proper cause from the sea of causal influences which aid in generating any token while at the same time avoiding the absurdity …
Credibility, Confirmation and Explanation
The Principle of Continuity and the Evaluation of Theories
Perhaps the Clearest and most impressive use of the Principle of Continuity by Leibniz in the evaluation of a theory is that offered in refutation of the Cartesian laws of motion, as given in his Critical Remarks Concerning the General Part of Descartes' Principles . With regard to the Cartesian laws of impact Leibniz says: On Article 49 . Rule 4. If B, which is moving, is smaller than C, which is at rest, B will be reflected with the velocity it…
Is Nuclear Deterrence Paradoxical
A paradox is a situation in which two seemingly equally rational lines of thought lead to contradictory conclusions. A moral paradox is a situation where the employment of diverse moral principles, each of which is at least intuitively acceptable to roughly the same degree, leads to radically different moral assessments of one and the same action. In his “Some Paradoxes of Deterrence” Gregory Kavka argues that such moral paradoxes lurk in the con…
Credibility, Confirmation and Explanation
Peirce’s teleological signs
Weak Supervenience and Materialism
The concept of supervenience is not new, going back at least to G. E. Moore,' but it is only since Donald Davidson employed the concept in the development of a psycho-physical identity theory' that philosophers have expended any great effort on it in areas beyond ethics. In a series of elegant papers, Jaegwon Kim3 has greatly clarified the issues that arise from the consideration of supervenience, as well as making distinctive applications of the…
Externalism and Token Identity
Journal Article Externalism And Token Identity Get access William Seager William Seager Scarborough College, University of Toro Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 169, October 1992, Pages 439–448, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220285 Published: 01 October 1992
Fodor's Theory of Content
Jerry Fodor has recently proposed a new entry into the list of information based approaches to semantic content aimed at explicating the general notion of representation for both mental states and linguistic tokens. The basic idea is that a token means what causes its production. The burden of the theory is to select the proper cause from the sea of causal influences which aid in generating any token while at the same time avoiding the absurdity …
Metaphysics of Consciousness
The Elimination of Experience
Like a leaky roof, the phenomena of consciousness continue to drip cold water on otherwise virtually watertight physicalist pretensions. There are no current prospects for any sort of scientific theory of consciousness and the various speculative attempts to point in the direction of such a theory of consciousness all appear to suffer from the rather basic problem of being, in the words of Thomas Nagel, compatible with its absence (Nagel (1974), …
Ground Truth and Virtual Reality
Hacking argues against van Fraassen's constructive empiricism by appeal to features of microscopic imaging. Hacking relies on both our practices involving imaging instruments and the structure of the images produced by these micropractices. Van Fraassen's reply is formally correct yet fundamentally unsatisfying. I aim to strengthen van Fraassen's reply, but must then extend constructive empiricism, specifically the central notion of “theoretical …
A Note on the ‘Quantum Eraser’
This note aims to make more familiar to philosophers yet another bizarre quantum mechanical effect with disturbing metaphysical implications. It is possible to modify the classic double-slit experiment so that one can register the path of a particle to determine which slit it passes through, and then erase this registered information so that the interference effects which would normally disappear upon registration of the “which path” information …
Supervenience and Mind
Jaegwon Kim is one of the most pre-eminent and most influential contributors to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. This collection of essays presents the core of his work on supervenience and mind with two sets of postscripts especially written for the book. The essays focus on such issues as the nature of causation and events, what dependency relations other than causal relations connect facts and events, the analysis of supervenience, and …
Kant and the MindAndrew Brook Cambridge
Theories of consciousness
Introspection and the Elementary Acts of Mind
Fred Dretske a développé, à titre de composante de sa théorie de la conscience, une théorie de I'introspection. Celle-ciprésente une plausibilityé indépendante, elle résiste à des objections qui affectent nombre d'autres théories et elle suggère des liens très féconds dans plusieurs domaines de la science cognitive. La version qu'en donne Dretske est restreinte à la connaissance introspective des états perceptuels. Mon objectif ici est d'étendre …
The Taboo of Subjectivity
Theories of Consciousness
The most remarkable fact about the universe is that certain parts of it are conscious. Somehow nature has managed to pull the rabbit of experience out of a hat made of mere matter. Making its own contribution to the current, lively debate about the nature of consciousness, Theories of Consciousness introduces variety of approaches to consciousness and explores to what extent scientific understanding of consciousness is possible. Including discuss…
Emotional introspection
Theories of Consciousness
Despite recent strides in neuroscience and psychology that have deepened understanding of the brain, consciousness remains one of the greatest philosophical and scientific puzzles. The second edition of Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction and Assessment provides a fresh and up-to-date introduction to a variety of approaches to consciousness, and contributes to the current lively debate about the nature of consciousness and whether a scient…
Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism
Philosophy (16 obras) · Epistemology (14 obras) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Consciousness (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (4 obras) · Cognitive science (4 obras) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (4 obras) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 obras)