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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"The Explanatory Gap"”.
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EXPLANATORY GAPS ABOUND: A DEFENCE OF PHYSICALISM AGAINST ARGUMENTS FROM EPISTEMIC CONTRAST
According to a popular line of thought, there is a special explanatory gap found in reductive explanations of the phenomenal in terms of the physical. In contrast, this explanatory gap is not found in paradigmatic reductive explanations. This special explanatory gap, which can be cashed out in …
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Moral properties and moral imagination
… why it is unsound, and what emerges from that. The argument is that if there were moral properties, they would be queerly related to non-moral properties and this is sufficient reason to think there are no moral properties. The argument is unsound for two reasons. The first emerges from …
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Genetically encodable calcium sensors for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
A key requirement for understanding the workings of the brain is to fill in the explanatory gap between molecular phenomena and identifiable behavior at the organismal level. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides a unique tool for bridging this gap, as it allows for imaging tissue throughout …
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Functional neuroimaging studies of peripheral inflammation-related depression
… of disability worldwide although it lacks one of the typical characteristics of a disorder, disease or disability in the traditional sense, i.e., biological markers. Depression is difficult to characterize in that it is highly heterogeneous epidemiologically and symptomatically. Depression is …