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Slide 1The Phenomenal Thought Controversy A critique of Prinz Lecture 5 Charles Siewert Rice University [email protected] Slide 2 The controversy, roughly speaking: how cognitively…

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Slide 1 Western Worldview #3 Slide 2 Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, others, all share a belief in God, or something very much like God, the grounding of all existence.…

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Slide 1 A classic philosophical conundrum: If a tree falls in a forest and no-one hears it fall, does it make a sound? Slide 2 Of course it does, don’t be stupid! Hmm,…

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Slide 1 Representation Slide 2 Why do we represent things? (Lascaux cave murals) Slide 3 Altamira Slide 4 Why do we represent things/others? To gain power over them (cave…

Slide 1 The philosophical analysis of causality or causation has proved exceedingly difficult. The work of philosophers to understand causality and how best to characterize…