This paper presents a formal characterization of the major concepts and constructs o f fuzzy logic in terms of notions o f distance, closeness, and similarity between pairs o f possible worlds. The formalism is a direct extension (by recognition of multiple degrees o f accessibility, conceivability, or reachability) of the major modal logic concepts of possible and necessary truth. Given a func...

I am grateful to Philip Goff and David Papineau, Geoff Lee, and Joe Levine for their commentaries on The Character of Consciousness. All of the articles in this symposium focus on the first half of the book, especially section III on the metaphysics of consciousness. Each of them addresses my arguments against materialism and offers interesting responses to them. The main focus is on the two-di...

pull the cat' s tail . It was going to be an awful afternoon until Uncle Wilifred thought of Mental Representations (which was a game that we hadn ' t played for years) and everybody got very excited and we jumped up and down and waved our hands and all talked at once and had a perfectly lovely romp . But Auntie said that she couldn 't stand the noise and there would be tears before bedtime if ...

This paper is an overview of my philosophical work. It follows closely the structure of the handout I used as the basis for a talk on this topic at the 2000 meeting of the Austro-Slovene Philosophical Association. The section-headings mention major themes, and various key concepts are indicated by boldface terms in the text. I invoked the notion of supervenience in my doctoral dissertation, Mic...

In this paper, by analyzing the Chalmers-Searle debate about Chalmers’ zombie thought experiment, I attempt to determine the implications that the irreducibility of consciousness has for the truth of materialism. While Chalmers claims that the irreducibility of consciousness forces us to embrace dualism, Searle claims that it has no deep metaphysical im­ port and, in particular, that it is full...

The first six articles in this issue of Transactions GIS were gathered from a call for abstracts and will be presented two research sessions scheduled during the 2021 Esri User Conference. From 19 submitted, journal editors selected preparation as full articles. Each these manuscripts passed through usual peer review process final versions included here have been revised light both reviewers' e...

I'm very pleased to have the opportunity comment on Declan Smithies’ thought-provoking, creative, and ambitious book: The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (‘ERC’).1 Unfortunately I can only discuss a small selection issues that it covers here. I'll focus conception belief Smithies defends in Ch. 4–5 (and further 7–10): beliefs as dispositions cause judgments—specifically, one-track phenomenally ...

Over the past three decades, philosophy of science has grown increasingly "local." Concerns have switched from general features of scientific practice to concepts, issues, and puzzles specific to particular disciplines. Philosophy of neuroscience is a natural result. This emerging area was also spurred by remarkable recent growth in the neurosciences. Cognitive and computational neuroscience co...

In its traditional guise, cross-cultural psychology is a science of comparative measurement. Its chief method is the regulated observation or recording of behaviour in different cultural milieux and its quantitative conversion into a common metric. This method allows for the estimation of differences across cultures on the strength or magnitude of the behaviour. We can therefore speak of one cu...

Despite having been relegated to the realm of superstition during the dominant years of behaviourism, the investigation and discussion of consciousness has again become scientifically defensible. However, attempts at describing animal consciousness continue to be criticised for lacking independent criteria that identify the presence or absence of the phenomenon. Over one hundred years ago Willi...