DIALECTICAPub Date : 2019-11-14DOI: 10.1111/1746-8361.12275
Peter Schulte
{"title":"Challenging Liberal Representationalism: A Reply to Artiga","authors":"Peter Schulte","doi":"10.1111/1746-8361.12275","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1746-8361.12275","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Liberal representationalism is the view that even some internal states of very simple organisms like plants or bacteria count as genuine representations. This view has been heavily criticized by many authors, including myself. In a recent paper, Marc Artiga attempts to defend liberal representationalism against these criticisms. One of his main targets is an argument of explanatory exclusion that he ascribes to Burge, Ramsey, Rescorla, Sterelny and me (among others). In this paper, I reply to Artiga by distinguishing the exclusion argument that he focuses on from what is, in my view, the real explanatory challenge for liberal representationalism, and I argue that none of the considerations put forward by Artiga in defense of the liberal view provide an adequate answer to this challenge.</p>","PeriodicalId":46676,"journal":{"name":"DIALECTICA","volume":"73 3","pages":"331-348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1746-8361.12275","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42955785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIALECTICAPub Date : 2019-11-14DOI: 10.1111/1746-8361.12278
Sungho Choi
{"title":"Reverse-Cycle Intrinsic Finks","authors":"Sungho Choi","doi":"10.1111/1746-8361.12278","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1746-8361.12278","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is an ongoing debate among metaphysicians of dispositions about whether intrinsic interferers are possible for dispositions. What is interesting about this debate is that, whilst it is widely noted that dispositional interferers can work on a ‘reverse’ cycle, the possibility of reverse-cycle intrinsic interferers has been put on the sidelines with all the attention being paid to the possibility of their ‘normal’ cousins. Presumably this is due to the perception that a discussion of reverse-cycle interferers will be a trivial repetition of a discussion of normal ones. But I will argue that this perception is wrong. Whilst I acknowledge that there is a significant symmetry between the possibility of normal interferers and that of reverse-cycle ones, it is not a trivial task to give an account of intrinsic interferers in a way that accommodates this symmetry. In fact, when we examine the justifications the participants in this debate have offered for their positions, it will emerge that they are all under pressure to reject the possibility of reverse-cycle intrinsic interferers. What is intriguing about this result is that what advocates of the possibility of normal intrinsic interferers have said in support of that possibility, rather unexpectedly, puts pressure on them to reject the possibility of reverse-cycle intrinsic interferers. Combined with the symmetry between the possibility of normal interferers and that of reverse-cycle ones, this will pose a serious challenge to them.</p>","PeriodicalId":46676,"journal":{"name":"DIALECTICA","volume":"73 3","pages":"429-455"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1746-8361.12278","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42494931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIALECTICAPub Date : 2019-07-21DOI: 10.1111/1746-8361.12261
Andrea Marchesi
{"title":"Brentanian Inner Consciousness and the Infinite Regress Problem","authors":"Andrea Marchesi","doi":"10.1111/1746-8361.12261","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1746-8361.12261","url":null,"abstract":"<p>By “Brentanian inner consciousness” I mean the conception of inner consciousness developed by Franz Brentano. The aim of this paper is threefold: first, to present Brentano's account of inner consciousness; second, to discuss this account in light of the mereology outlined by Brentano himself; and third, to decide whether this account incurs an infinite regress. In this regard, I distinguish two kinds of infinite regress: external infinite regress and internal infinite regress. I contend that the most plausible reading of Brentano's account is the so-called fusion thesis, and I argue that internal infinite regress turns out to be inherent to Brentanian inner consciousness.</p>","PeriodicalId":46676,"journal":{"name":"DIALECTICA","volume":"73 1-2","pages":"129-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1746-8361.12261","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43875250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIALECTICAPub Date : 2019-07-21DOI: 10.1111/1746-8361.12260
Martina Fürst
{"title":"On the Conceivability of a Cognitive Phenomenology Zombie","authors":"Martina Fürst","doi":"10.1111/1746-8361.12260","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1746-8361.12260","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <i>cognitive phenomenology thesis</i> has it that conscious cognitive states essentially exhibit a phenomenal character. Defenders of ‘conservatism’ about cognitive phenomenology think that the phenomenology of thought is reducible to sensory phenomenology. In contrast, proponents of ‘liberalism’ hold that there is a proprietary, sui generis cognitive phenomenology. Horgan develops a morph-sequence argument to argue for liberalism. The argument is based on the conceivability of a cognitive phenomenology zombie, i.e. a man who does not understand Chinese but shares the behavior and sensory phenomenology with his twin who does understand Chinese. I argue that the conceivability of a cognitive phenomenology-zombie fails to settle the debate between conservatives and liberals. The roots of the ineffectiveness of the argument lie in the diverse readings of sensory phenomenology which flesh out the relation between sensory phenomenology and concepts differently but explain the conceivability of the scenario equally well. The lesson to learn is that to adjudicate the debate about cognitive phenomenology, we first have to clarify the notion of sensory phenomenology.</p>","PeriodicalId":46676,"journal":{"name":"DIALECTICA","volume":"73 1-2","pages":"105-127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1746-8361.12260","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41384769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIALECTICAPub Date : 2019-07-21DOI: 10.1111/1746-8361.12268
Boris Hennig
{"title":"Self-Knowledge as Knowledge of the Good: Hugh of St. Victor on Self-Knowledge","authors":"Boris Hennig","doi":"10.1111/1746-8361.12268","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1746-8361.12268","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This is a discussion of self-knowledge in Hugh of St. Victor. It will yield the following three systematic results. First, it will be shown that there is a clear sense in which human self-knowledge is knowledge of one's own rationality, and therefore knowledge of the proper object of one's rational capacities (<i>dunameis meta logou</i>). Second, a distinction will be drawn between perfect and imperfect self-knowledge. Third, it will turn out that under conditions of perfect self-knowledge, all our rational capacities would work like our capacity for perceptual knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":46676,"journal":{"name":"DIALECTICA","volume":"73 1-2","pages":"211-230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1746-8361.12268","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45497483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIALECTICAPub Date : 2019-07-21DOI: 10.1111/1746-8361.12257
Luca Zanetti
{"title":"Robert Lockie, Free Will and Epistemology: A Defence of the Transcendental Argument for Freedom, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 320 pp., £91 (hardbound), ISBN 9781350029040.","authors":"Luca Zanetti","doi":"10.1111/1746-8361.12257","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1746-8361.12257","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46676,"journal":{"name":"DIALECTICA","volume":"73 1-2","pages":"273-279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1746-8361.12257","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49455445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIALECTICAPub Date : 2019-07-21DOI: 10.1111/1746-8361.12266
Sonia Roca-Royes
{"title":"Concepts and the Epistemology of Essence","authors":"Sonia Roca-Royes","doi":"10.1111/1746-8361.12266","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1746-8361.12266","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is an exploration of the prospects of rationalist, concept-based epistemologies of modality as far as essentialist and de re modal claims are concerned. I grant certain explanatory power to such epistemologies but, primarily, I identify their limitations. I first explore them in view of the (possible) existence of general as well as of singular modally loaded concepts and find their explanatory scope severely limited. Inspired by the abstractionist’s concept-andentitlement based hybrid model, the paper then explores a similarly hybrid strategy. The outcome of this exploration is that, regardless of its explanatory scope, it would be a misnomer to describe such hybrid view as concept-based. The result generalizes.","PeriodicalId":46676,"journal":{"name":"DIALECTICA","volume":"73 1-2","pages":"3-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1746-8361.12266","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42624714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIALECTICAPub Date : 2019-07-21DOI: 10.1111/1746-8361.12259
Vincenzo Fano, Gino Tarozzi
{"title":"J. Faye and H.J. Folse, eds, Niels Bohr and the Philosophy of Physics: Twenty-First Century Perspectives, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, 384 pp., US$114.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781350035126.","authors":"Vincenzo Fano, Gino Tarozzi","doi":"10.1111/1746-8361.12259","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1746-8361.12259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46676,"journal":{"name":"DIALECTICA","volume":"73 1-2","pages":"267-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1746-8361.12259","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43643207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIALECTICAPub Date : 2019-07-21DOI: 10.1111/1746-8361.12258
Artūrs Logins
{"title":"Mark McBride, Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2017, 228 pp., £16.95 (Paperback), ISBN 978-1-78374-283-7.","authors":"Artūrs Logins","doi":"10.1111/1746-8361.12258","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1746-8361.12258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46676,"journal":{"name":"DIALECTICA","volume":"73 1-2","pages":"280-285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1746-8361.12258","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49270776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIALECTICAPub Date : 2019-07-21DOI: 10.1111/1746-8361.12264
Antony Eagle
{"title":"Weak Location","authors":"Antony Eagle","doi":"10.1111/1746-8361.12264","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1746-8361.12264","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recently, many philosophers have been interested in using locative relations to clarify and pursue debates in the metaphysics of material objects. Most begin with the relation of exact location. But what if we begin instead with the relation known as weak location – the relation an object <i>x</i> bears to any region not completely bereft of <i>x</i>? I explore some of the consequences of pursuing this route for issues including <i>coincidence</i>, <i>extended simples</i>, and <i>endurance</i>, with an eye to evaluating the prospects for taking weak location as our fundamental locative relation.</p>","PeriodicalId":46676,"journal":{"name":"DIALECTICA","volume":"73 1-2","pages":"149-181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1746-8361.12264","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45481396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}