The Quest to Solve Problems That Don’t Exist: Thought Artifacts in Contemporary Ontology
Questions about the nature of reality and consciousness remain unresolved in philosophy today, but not for lack of hypotheses. Ontologies as varied as physicalism, microexperientialism and cosmopsychism enrich the philosophical menu. Each of these ontologies faces a seemingly fundamental problem: un...
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| description | Questions about the nature of reality and consciousness remain unresolved in philosophy today, but not for lack of hypotheses. Ontologies as varied as physicalism, microexperientialism and cosmopsychism enrich the philosophical menu. Each of these ontologies faces a seemingly fundamental problem: under physicalism, for instance, we have the ‘hard problem of consciousness,’ whereas under microexperientialism we have the ‘subject combination problem.’ I argue that these problems are thought artifacts, having no grounding in empirical reality. In a manner akin to semantic paradoxes, they exist only in the internal logico-conceptual structure of their respective ontologies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-04fe43519bba4551b77c72a8e015a7d42022-12-21T22:37:20ZengSciendoStudia Humana2299-05182017-10-0164455110.1515/sh-2017-0026sh-2017-0026The Quest to Solve Problems That Don’t Exist: Thought Artifacts in Contemporary OntologyKastrup Bernardo0Veldhoven, The NetherlandsQuestions about the nature of reality and consciousness remain unresolved in philosophy today, but not for lack of hypotheses. Ontologies as varied as physicalism, microexperientialism and cosmopsychism enrich the philosophical menu. Each of these ontologies faces a seemingly fundamental problem: under physicalism, for instance, we have the ‘hard problem of consciousness,’ whereas under microexperientialism we have the ‘subject combination problem.’ I argue that these problems are thought artifacts, having no grounding in empirical reality. In a manner akin to semantic paradoxes, they exist only in the internal logico-conceptual structure of their respective ontologies.https://doi.org/10.1515/sh-2017-0026physicalismpanpsychismcosmopsychismidealismhard problem of consciousnesssubject combination problem |
| spellingShingle | Kastrup Bernardo The Quest to Solve Problems That Don’t Exist: Thought Artifacts in Contemporary Ontology Studia Humana physicalism panpsychism cosmopsychism idealism hard problem of consciousness subject combination problem |
| title | The Quest to Solve Problems That Don’t Exist: Thought Artifacts in Contemporary Ontology |
| title_full | The Quest to Solve Problems That Don’t Exist: Thought Artifacts in Contemporary Ontology |
| title_fullStr | The Quest to Solve Problems That Don’t Exist: Thought Artifacts in Contemporary Ontology |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Quest to Solve Problems That Don’t Exist: Thought Artifacts in Contemporary Ontology |
| title_short | The Quest to Solve Problems That Don’t Exist: Thought Artifacts in Contemporary Ontology |
| title_sort | quest to solve problems that don t exist thought artifacts in contemporary ontology |
| topic | physicalism panpsychism cosmopsychism idealism hard problem of consciousness subject combination problem |
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