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Модальный аргумент Крипке и его развитие в западной философии сознания
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Garntseva N.
The paper analyses the logical structure of Kripke’s modal essentialist argument against materialism and also puts it in the broader context of contemporary analytic philosophy of mind. The comparison is made between Kripke’s essentialism and that of Aristotle. It is argued that Kripke’s anti-materialist argument had influenced significantly related arguments of Thomas Nagel, Joseph Levine and especially David Chalmers. However, as for the former, Kripke's notion of «necessary a posteriori» puts some pressure on his zombie argument. Chalmers tries to deal with this problem by introducing two-dimensional semantics. Due to the strength and convincingness of Kripke’s argument physicalistic materialism nowadays has lost its status of «orthodox» stance in the analysis of consciousness.
Humphrey N., Философский журнал 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 99–106
Sensations represent our subjective ‘take’ on sensory stimulation – how we feel about redlight falling on the retina, salt dissolving on the tongue, a thorn piercing the skin. Theytell – in the language of phenomenal properties – what the experience is like for us. In sofar as they represent the reality of this subjective relationship, ...
Added: June 19, 2026
Gorbachev M., Философский журнал 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 107–117
This is a commentary to the translation of Nicholas Humphrey’s article “Redder thanRed. Illusionism or Phenomenal Surrealism?”, where he proposes what might seem to bean alternative to the illusionist theory of consciousness – phenomenal surrealism. Hismain idea is that our subjective experience is more real than objective reality, sincethelatter lacks, for example, the funny, the ...
Added: June 19, 2026
Gorbachev M., Омский научный вестник. Серия «Общество. История. Современность» 2026 Т. 11 № 1 С. 108–114
The article is devoted to the question of the compatibility between the illusionist theory of consciousness
and the widely accepted sentientist approach to the justification of moral status. Illusionism denies
the existence of phenomenal consciousness and qualia, claiming that we are disposed to believe that
they exist due to a systematic introspective distortion. If phenomenal consciousness does not ...
Added: March 5, 2026
Gorbachev M., В кн.: Революция и эволюция: модели развития в науке, культуре, социуме: Труды V Международной научной конференции.: М.: Русское общество истории и философии науки, 2025. С. 369–372.
Illusionists have proposed an explanation for our tendency to make phenomenal judgements, attributing this disposition to introspective illusion that emerge from the functioning of the human brain. However, a crucial aspect of the illusionist approach is that such an illusion is precisely dispositional and does not necessarily lead to actual beliefs about qualia. A critique ...
Added: December 4, 2025
Gorbachev M., Frankish K., Synthese 2025 Vol. 205 No. 6 Article 247
The illusionist theory of consciousness denies the existence of the ‘phenomenal’ properties widely thought to render experience conscious. Central to the illusionist approach is what we call the distortion thesis — the claim that introspective mechanisms systematically misrepresent neural processes in a way that strongly inclines us to judge that they have phenomenal properties, creating ...
Added: May 26, 2025
Frankish K., Вопросы философии 2024 № 8 С. 48–59
This is the second part of the article by Keith Frankish Quining Diet Qualia, which asks whether we can identify a neutral explanandum for theories of phenomenal consciousness, acceptable to all sides. The “classic” conception of qualia, on which qualia are intrinsic, ineffable, and subjective, will not serve this purpose, but it is widely assumed ...
Added: May 25, 2024
Frankish K., Вопросы философии 2024 № 7 С. 131–138
This is the first part of the article by Keith Frankish Quining Diet Qualia, which asks whether we can identify a neutral explanandum for theories of phenomenal consciousness, acceptable to all sides. The “classic” conception of qualia, on which qualia are intrinsic, ineffable, and subjective, will not serve this purpose, but it is widely assumed ...
Added: May 25, 2024
Gorbachev M., Эпистемология и философия науки 2024 Т. 61 № 2 С. 114–133
A few years ago, an illusionist theory of consciousness appeared
in the philosophy of consciousness. It makes an unexpected statement – there is actually no phenomenal consciousness, it is illusory. This illusion is created introspective distortion of physical
processes in the brain, which seem to us to have special phenomenal properties. However, an equally strong form of ...
Added: May 25, 2024
Gorbachev M., Человек 2024 Т. 35 № 2 С. 87–102
Illusionism is a relatively recent theory of consciousness that has absorbed and consistently developed physicalist intuitions about consciousness. This approach gives sufficient grounds to consider it contrary to the basic ideas of realists regarding phenomenal consciousness, because according to illusionism there is no phenomenal consciousness, it is just an illusion. The author believes that the ...
Added: December 16, 2023
Gorbachev M., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2023 Vol. 7 No. 4 P. 199–214
The article is about the discussion between realists and illusionists on phenomenal consciousness, phenomenal properties or qualia. The author considers what he calls epistemological-ontological transition made by illusionists and realists – transition from epistemologically significant statements to ontologically significant ones. The option to avoid such transition is tested in order to overcome some obstacles that ...
Added: December 16, 2023
Gorbachev M., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Философия. Социология. Политология 2023 № 76 С. 18–26
Illusionism is a physicalist theory of consciousness, according to which phenomenal consciousness is an introspective illusion that appears as a result of the functioning of introspective mechanisms that represent non–phenomenal properties as phenomenal ones. In contrast to classical qualia, which are subjective, ineffablejudge and our perception of them is direct and unmistakable, illusionism offers "zero ...
Added: December 16, 2023
Rahimian S., Consciousness and Cognition 2022 Vol. 97 Article 103246
Recent advances in neural sciences have uncovered countless facts about the brain. Although there is a plethora of theories of consciousness, it seems to some philosophers that there is still an explanatory gap when it comes to a scientific account of subjective experience. In what follows, I argue why some of our more commonly acknowledged ...
Added: January 25, 2022
Lubashevsky I., Plavinska N., Springer, 2021.
This book presents a novel account of the human temporal dimension called the “human temporality” and develops a special mathematical formalism for describing such an object as the human mind. One of the characteristic features of the human mind is its temporal extent. For objects of physical reality, only the present exists, which may be ...
Added: October 22, 2021
Knyazeva H., , in: WOSC 2021 Book of abstracts. World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics. WOSC Congress 2021. On-line 27. to 30. September 2021. Systems approach and cybernetics, engaging the future of mankind. The significance of systems and cybernetics in the future of societies.: OWN, 2021. Ch. 22 P. 18–18.
The paper is aimed to substantiate the prospects of using a systemic approach to maintaining and strengthening human psychosomatic health in the current period of the coronavirus pandemic. The systemic approach is based on the consideration of the human organism as a complex system or a risky structure in accordance with the conception of self-organized ...
Added: October 18, 2021
Knyazeva H., МЕТОД: Московский ежегодник трудов из обществоведческих дисциплин 2020 Т. 10 С. 179–195
Descartes' thesis about the separation of mind and body is usually quite severely criticized in modern cognitive science in general and philosophy of mind in particular. This thesis serves as an important starting point for the development of the conception of embodied and enacted cognition, which has gained extraordinary popularity to date. This article substantiates ...
Added: January 14, 2021
Mikheev I. S., Kozlova M. A., Журнал исследований социальной политики 2020 Т. 18 № 4 С. 657–672
In this article , based on the research conducted at the case-study research, questions arise related to the features of inclusive education of foreign children in Russia. Currently, we take into account the transnational nature of modern migration processes. Their specificity lies in the variability of the discourse on the “adequacy” of adaptation measures; for a ...
Added: October 15, 2020
Knyazeva H., Праксема. Проблемы визуальной семиотики 2020 № 1 С. 58–75
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of knowledge where the most significant scientific breakthroughs occur in the XXI century. They are significant both for the development of convergent technologies and for the dissemination of interdisciplinary and integrative trends in research that connect areas previously thought of as completely incompatible, including natural sciences and the humanities. ...
Added: March 30, 2020
Winkler S. P., Idealistic Studies 2018 Vol. 47 No. 3 P. 149–173
In this paper, I begin by showing that for Spinoza, it is unclear how the human mind can have a true idea of God. I first provide an explanation of Spinoza’s theory of parallelism of the mind and the body, followed by showing how this doctrine seems to undermine the mind’s ability to have an ...
Added: April 12, 2019