Deficit of conceivability: response to Bogdan Faul’s article «Minimal dualism and epistemic approach»
The argument in defense of minimal dualism presented in Bogdan Faul’s article presents the idea that we can conceive consciousness existing only in the introspection without a physical body. From that kind of conceivability follows the possibility of consciousness. And this leads to the falsity o...
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Omsk State Technical University, Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education
2021-02-01
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| description | The argument in defense of minimal dualism presented in Bogdan Faul’s article
presents the idea that we can conceive consciousness existing only in the
introspection without a physical body. From that kind of conceivability follows
the possibility of consciousness. And this leads to the falsity of physicalism. I argue
that Faul’s argument is not fundamentally different from the ghost argument. Then
I consider a step from conceivability to possibility and conclude that no argument
of conceivability guarantees the possibility that consciousness is non-physical
since we lack the epistemic capacity for such a conclusion. In the last part of this
article, I discuss three kinds of conceivability. The classification of these kinds of
conceivability demonstrates what kind of conceivability we lack for an argument to
be sound, and we cannot have such conceivability |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4b2e6e57aabe456aaca8301eaaf1f2602025-02-02T15:51:36ZengOmsk State Technical University, Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher EducationОмский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"2542-04882541-79832021-02-0161919410.25206/2542-0488-2021-6-1-91-94Deficit of conceivability: response to Bogdan Faul’s article «Minimal dualism and epistemic approach»T. S. Demin0Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University «LETI»The argument in defense of minimal dualism presented in Bogdan Faul’s article presents the idea that we can conceive consciousness existing only in the introspection without a physical body. From that kind of conceivability follows the possibility of consciousness. And this leads to the falsity of physicalism. I argue that Faul’s argument is not fundamentally different from the ghost argument. Then I consider a step from conceivability to possibility and conclude that no argument of conceivability guarantees the possibility that consciousness is non-physical since we lack the epistemic capacity for such a conclusion. In the last part of this article, I discuss three kinds of conceivability. The classification of these kinds of conceivability demonstrates what kind of conceivability we lack for an argument to be sound, and we cannot have such conceivabilityhttps://www.omgtu.ru/general_information/media_omgtu/journal_of_omsk_research_journal/files/arhiv/2021/%D0%A2.%206,%20%E2%84%96%201%20(%D0%9E%D0%98%D0%A1)/91-94%20%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%20%D0%A2.%20%D0%A1..pdfconceivabilitypossibilityghost argumentzombie argumentabsolute conceivability |
| spellingShingle | T. S. Demin Deficit of conceivability: response to Bogdan Faul’s article «Minimal dualism and epistemic approach» Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность" conceivability possibility ghost argument zombie argument absolute conceivability |
| title | Deficit of conceivability: response to Bogdan Faul’s article «Minimal dualism and epistemic approach» |
| title_full | Deficit of conceivability: response to Bogdan Faul’s article «Minimal dualism and epistemic approach» |
| title_fullStr | Deficit of conceivability: response to Bogdan Faul’s article «Minimal dualism and epistemic approach» |
| title_full_unstemmed | Deficit of conceivability: response to Bogdan Faul’s article «Minimal dualism and epistemic approach» |
| title_short | Deficit of conceivability: response to Bogdan Faul’s article «Minimal dualism and epistemic approach» |
| title_sort | deficit of conceivability response to bogdan faul s article minimal dualism and epistemic approach |
| topic | conceivability possibility ghost argument zombie argument absolute conceivability |
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