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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"explanatory gap"”.
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EXPLANATORY GAPS ABOUND: A DEFENCE OF PHYSICALISM AGAINST ARGUMENTS FROM EPISTEMIC CONTRAST
… 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 terms of the …
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Moral properties and moral imagination
… the moral and sensational is important to "The Explanatory Gap" which discusses Levine's notion of an explanatory gap, relates it to the queer relation discussed in "Moral Realism," and criticizes one use to which it is put. The criticism emerges from consideration of the disanalogy between the …
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A Teleosemantic Theory Of The Deep-Unconscious: A Response To John R. Searle's Account Of The Unconscious
… is that he sacrifices the theoretical virof explanatory power for the sake of ontological simplicity. The reason the unconscious mind gained theoretical sustenance in the first place was to understand and explain various aspects of human behavior that consciousness cannot account for, so any …
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Could consciousness be physically realised?
… argument fails. It also closes Levine’s “explanatory gap” between physical and phenomenal truths. Though it may not satisfy all demands for explanation, any remainder poses no threat to physicalism. I then defend type-C physicalism against some recent objections to the “phenomenal-concept …
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Genetically encodable calcium sensors for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
… 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 whole organisms. Although …
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The Case for Quantum State Realism
… of interpretations. I identify an important explanatory gap in the latter sort of interpretation. In particular, if the quantum state is a subjective representation of beliefs about future experimental outcomes, then it is not clear why those experimenters who use quantum mechanics should be …
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The Immediacy of Phenomenal Concepts and Immediate Implications for Physicalism
… to physicalism are based on the apparent gap between physical knowledge and phenomenal knowledge. In response, some physicalists accept the epistemic gap, but deny the inference from the epistemic gap to a metaphysical gap. One popular strategy is to argue that there is something unique …
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Functional neuroimaging studies of peripheral inflammation-related depression
… depression, which are important for bridging the explanatory gap between peripheral immune states, like inflammation, and mental states, like depression, in humans. Chapter 1 introduces a dichotomy in thinking about depression, discussing briefly historical concepts that on one hand supported a …
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Constructing UK obesity policy: discourse, framing, and politics
… stasis. In this thesis, I sought to address this gap in the literature through a qualitative analysis of academic, media, and policy elites’ discourses on obesity in public health, through the form of UK government obesity strategies. More specifically, I examined the debate over obesity …