Mental events are sometimes described as if they are causal products of physical events. The following are examples of prima facia causal reports about familiar mental events: (1) I felt pain from stabbing my finger with a knife. (2) I was surprised by the ringing sound. (3) I was embarrassed by his behavior Seemingly, in these statements, the causes of the mental events are uniquely and defini...

Logical pluralism is the claim that different accounts of validity can be equally correct. Beall and Restall have recently defended this position. Validity is a matter of truth-preservation over cases, they say: the conclusion should be true in every case in which the premises are true. Each logic specifies a class of cases, but differs over which cases should be considered. I show that this ac...

Introduction Clifford Geertz is one of the most celebrated anthropologists in twentieth-century anthropology. Starting his career in the late nineteen-fifties, he represented the American branch of symbolic anthropology, also known as interpretive anthropology. Geertz’s work continues to influence present-day authors, even after anthropology shifted to different topics than those lying within t...

This paper examines the issue of relationship between international and national law that leads to gradation laws. Is superior or inferior law? question pushed existing theoretical positions find more convincing answers practical solutions this question. The article differentiates two doctrines, first is monism law, second dualism law. status in legal system determined by constitution each coun...

Causal pluralism is increasingly gaining interest as a promising alternative for monistic approaches toward causation. However, although the debate is scarcely out of the egg, the term “causal pluralism” already covers diverse meanings. This creates confusion, and to remedy that confusion, it is necessary to discern different kinds of pluralistic approaches to causation and different possible p...

A visual conscious experience is my empirical basis. All that we know comes to us through conscious experiences. Thanks to natural evolution, we have nearly direct perception, and can largely trust the information we attain. There is full integration, with no gaps, of organisms in the continuous world. Human conscious experiences, on the other hand, are discrete. Consciousness has certain limit...

Abstract Mereological harmony is the idea that mereological structure of objects mirrors locations. Grounding there a similar mirroring between grounding and Our goal in this paper exploratory: we introduce then explore two notions harmony: locative structural. We outline potential structural principles for grounding, show which these may entail, or be entailed by, harmony. present case study h...

Quote: Originally Posted by TecnoTut Functionalism, whether it be machine functionalism, teleofunctionalism, or just plain old fashioned functionalism, merely describes what mental properties do, not what mental properties are ... Although functionalists associate themselves with materialistic monism (that is, the view that only material things exist), there is a dualism lurking beneath the sur...

A non-universal interaction, which involes only the heavy quarks (t L , b L) and t R , modifies the neutral current couplings and induces flavor changing neutral currents (FCNC). The size of the FCNC effect depends crucially on the dynamics of the fermion mass generation. In this paper, we study the effect of the non-universal interaction on Zbb, Zbs, Zds and Zdb, by using an effective lagrangi...

The information technology [IT] industry is one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy, both here in Australia and globally. This paper is an exploratory study of aspects of women’s status in the IT industry in Western Australia. What is apparent from this initial study is that the shortage of skilled personnel in WA mirrors the declining trend in the representation of women in the IT in...