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Philosophy in Review, Oct 31, 2014
Non-reductive physicalists have not had it easy in their attempts to weave a position on how the ... more Non-reductive physicalists have not had it easy in their attempts to weave a position on how the mind is at one-and-the-same-time not physical but also not epiphenomenal, while sufficiently connected to matter but not in a way that reduces it. Their hope is to find a coherent version of physicalism that carves out just enough space for the mental as the center of autonomous volition. Robert Kirk has been contributing to this tradition and offers a possible and appealing way for the non-reductivist to have her cake and eat it, too. In his book The Conceptual Link From Physical to Mental, Kirk proposes 'redescriptive physicalism' as a way of situating the mind in a physical world. According to this account, there is ontologically nothing more than what can be specified by the narrow language of physics. If P is a true physical description of our world, then any description Q outside the narrow vocabulary of physics must simply count as a redescription of the reality specified by P. This is the redescriptive thesis, and Kirk claims that physicalism commits one to it: the view that P makes all Q truths true in virtue of the parts or aspects of what P specifies. Redescriptive physicalism also makes compulsory the acceptance of the logico-conceptual (l-c) entailment thesis, according to which P l-c entails "mental truths about the individuals whose existence is provided for by P" (21). In other words, it would be contradictory to claim that P is true and redescriptions of it false.
Facta Universitatis, Series: Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History, 2021
Critics of the #MeToo movement claim that it has gone too far, that not enough hierarchies of abu... more Critics of the #MeToo movement claim that it has gone too far, that not enough hierarchies of abuse have been created to distinguish between the worst kinds of behaviors and those that are problematic but not criminal. The contention is that the #MeToo movement casts too wide a net. In this paper, I make an argument to the contrary: the #MeToo movement has not gone far enough in calling out the totality of abuse women, and some men, face daily. Left outside of the sexual harassment paradigm is gender-based sexual harassment that is not imbued with sexuality but nonetheless happens because of a person’s sex. I advance two related claims. First, the history of how we came to our current understanding of sexual harassment shows the sexualization of sexual harassment occurred because of political, legal, and practical reasons. Nothing confines us to our current view. Second, I argue against the position that sexual harassment is sui generis from gender-based harassment; rather, both ema...
Philosophy in Review, Oct 31, 2014
Non-reductive physicalists have not had it easy in their attempts to weave a position on how the ... more Non-reductive physicalists have not had it easy in their attempts to weave a position on how the mind is at one-and-the-same-time not physical but also not epiphenomenal, while sufficiently connected to matter but not in a way that reduces it. Their hope is to find a coherent version of physicalism that carves out just enough space for the mental as the center of autonomous volition. Robert Kirk has been contributing to this tradition and offers a possible and appealing way for the non-reductivist to have her cake and eat it, too. In his book The Conceptual Link From Physical to Mental, Kirk proposes 'redescriptive physicalism' as a way of situating the mind in a physical world. According to this account, there is ontologically nothing more than what can be specified by the narrow language of physics. If P is a true physical description of our world, then any description Q outside the narrow vocabulary of physics must simply count as a redescription of the reality specified by P. This is the redescriptive thesis, and Kirk claims that physicalism commits one to it: the view that P makes all Q truths true in virtue of the parts or aspects of what P specifies. Redescriptive physicalism also makes compulsory the acceptance of the logico-conceptual (l-c) entailment thesis, according to which P l-c entails "mental truths about the individuals whose existence is provided for by P" (21). In other words, it would be contradictory to claim that P is true and redescriptions of it false.
Facta Universitatis, Series: Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History, 2021
Critics of the #MeToo movement claim that it has gone too far, that not enough hierarchies of abu... more Critics of the #MeToo movement claim that it has gone too far, that not enough hierarchies of abuse have been created to distinguish between the worst kinds of behaviors and those that are problematic but not criminal. The contention is that the #MeToo movement casts too wide a net. In this paper, I make an argument to the contrary: the #MeToo movement has not gone far enough in calling out the totality of abuse women, and some men, face daily. Left outside of the sexual harassment paradigm is gender-based sexual harassment that is not imbued with sexuality but nonetheless happens because of a person’s sex. I advance two related claims. First, the history of how we came to our current understanding of sexual harassment shows the sexualization of sexual harassment occurred because of political, legal, and practical reasons. Nothing confines us to our current view. Second, I argue against the position that sexual harassment is sui generis from gender-based harassment; rather, both ema...