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Title:聽Can a Russellian Monist Be a Genuine Physicalist? Abstract: Currently, Russellian Monism is a cutting-edge theory in the discussion of phenomenal consciousness. It has the potential to retain the advantages of both narrow physicalism and narrow dualism by locating phenomenal consciousness in a fundamentally unified universe, having it play essential causal roles in the physical…

Title: Kant risk a lie! Abstract: Immanuel Kant says, 鈥渓ying is the chief sin against others, alongside robbery, murder and stuproviolatio鈥�. Kant never risks robbery, murder, or rape. But Kant does risk telling intentionally deceptive falsehoods. Instead of being a man a few words, Kant is a man of three million words. Equally revealing is…

TITLE:聽Probabilistic Arbitrary Reference ABSTRACT:聽Arbitrary Reference is the idea that we can refer to individual entities with some degree of arbitrariness. Although there are different accounts of Arbitrary Reference, nearly all of them can be challenged on the basis that they entail the existence of free-floating semantic facts, namely: semantic facts which are not grounded in…

Title: Depression and the Open Future Abstract: We intuitively think that the past is fixed or closed whereas the future is open. In a phenomenological description of depression, however, depressed subjects often report that the future is closed. Our na茂ve view of the open future thus seems to be impaired. What makes the depressed subjects…

Title: Regret Abstract: There are many ways to feel bad about things. This paper is about which of those ways of feeling bad count as regret, and why. I will suggest that a very great deal of our bad feelings are regrets, in opposition to the narrower view of some philosophers and psychologists who restrict…