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PHILOSOPHY PATHWAYS ISSN 2043-0728[Home]
Issue No. 213 6th July 2017
CONTENTS
Special mind-body dualism issue
I.'I might not have been the author of this article: An argument for mind-body dualism' by Geoffrey Klempner
II. 'Why am I here? (2013 YouTube video transcription)' by Geoffrey Klempner
III. 'Hedgehog Philosopher (Extracts 2010-2011)' by Geoffrey Klempner
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FROM THE LIST MANAGER
It will soon be approaching two years since I last had an issue of Philosophy Pathways all to myself (Philosophy Pathways 197 'Special Blogging Issue', 27 October 2015). I hope that you will indulge me. I have some new ideas I would like to share, and would very much appreciate some feedback. I have changed my mind about something that I thought was settled and beyond doubt: the truth of physicalism [...]
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(c) Geoffrey Klempner 2017
Email: klempner@fastmail.net
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I. 'I MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE: AN ARGUMENT FOR MIND-BODY DUALISM' BY GEOFFREY KLEMPNER
Appealing to Nietzsche's idea of the Eternal Recurrence, in this piece I consider a possible world where I did not exist, everything else remaining the same. The individual who came from the same sperm and egg as the author of this article, might not have been I. This is presented as an argument for interactionist dualism. While Descartes argued that I might have existed even if the world did not, I argue that the world -- this same world -- might have existed even though I did not [...]
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(c) Geoffrey Klempner 2017
Email: klempner@fastmail.net
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II. 'WHY AM I HERE? (2013 YOUTUBE VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION' BY GEOFFREY KLEMPNER
Why don't I just say what I've got to say and not worry, really not worry too much about how it looks. This is a hand... This is a hand... Once upon a time, there was a philosopher called G.E. Moore who thought he could prove the existence of an external world -- by doing what I've just done now. It's a question worth asking, What makes philosophers think that a certain sequence of words constitutes a proof of something? [...]
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(c) Geoffrey Klempner 2013, 2017
Email: klempner@fastmail.net
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III. 'HEDGEHOG PHILOSOPHER (EXTRACTS 2010-2011)' BY GEOFFREY KLEMPNER
What is it that I see?' -- An illusion. That's what I once called it. The Cartesian theatre, or the infinite regress of homunculi are merely naive expressions of that illusion, which reaches its ultimate refinement in the transcendental solipsism of Wittgenstein's Tractatus: 'The self of solipsism shrinks to a point of no extension, and there remains the reality co-ordinated with it' (5.64). Then I underwent an inexplicable conversion. And as a result came to believe that solipsism can be partially true [...]
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(c) Geoffrey Klempner 2011, 2017
Email: klempner@fastmail.net
