Paul Austin MurphyWilliam James on Truth… According to Richard RortyMany 20th century philosophers set themselves the task of defining (or redefining) the words “true” and “truth”. They wanted to see how…2d ago22d ago2
Paul Austin MurphyExplaining Qualia?“The problem of explaining these phenomenal qualities is just the problem of explaining consciousness. This is the really hard part of the…4d ago14d ago1
Paul Austin MurphyDownward Causation at the Level of the Mental… and Election Results?“Events at higher levels — levels where emergent properties become evident — can in turn feed back and affect events at lower levels. For…5d ago15d ago1
Paul Austin MurphyinThe Quantastic JournalThere is Science. And There Are Individual Scientists.Of course, you can’t have science without flesh-and-blood scientists. Yet, in broad terms, it can still be said that science is an…6d ago16d ago1
Paul Austin MurphyRelationalism/Relationism and its Violent Hierarchy: Relations vs Things[The word “things” is used to refer to objects, entities, particulars, individuals, etc.]Jul 41Jul 41
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyWittgenstein on Why the Liar Paradox Belongs to a Language Game(i) Introduction (ii) On the Liar Paradox as a Language Game (iii) The Liar Paradox Was Created, Not FoundJul 12Jul 12
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyPhysics and the Philosophy of Intrinsic Properties(i) Introduction (ii) David Lewis on Intrinsic Properties (iii) Philip Goff on Intrinsic Nature (iv) Did Bertrand Russell Reject Intrinsic…Jun 301Jun 301
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyDid Daniel Dennett Believe that Qualia Are Real?According to Owen Flanagan, Daniel Dennett happily accepted that there is a way things seem to us. However, is that the same thing as…Jun 291Jun 291
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyA Deflationary View of Information in PhysicsThis essay tackles the notion of information as it’s used by physicists.Jun 276Jun 276
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyBertrand Russell: “The only way to find out what philosophy is, is to do philosophy.”The English philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) believed that when it comes to definitions of the word ‘philosophy’ (as well as to…Jun 251Jun 251