DOES THE FUNDAMENTALITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS ENTAIL ITS UBIQUITY?

• Authors: Michael Blamauer
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Property dualists commonly consider consciousness to be a further fundamental feature of reality in addition to its physical properties. Fundamental physical properties are ubiquitous: every physical object and its intrinsic properties ontologically depend on fundamental particles and their fundamental intrinsic features. However, property dualists mostly restrict the range of mental properties to a set of systems that satisfy a particular physical description. This paper challenges the approach of restriction and argues that if mental properties are ontologically fundamental then they must be widespread as well.

Keywords

EN

CONSCIOUSNESS; PROPERTY DUALISM; FUNDAMENTALITY; PHILOSOPHY; MIND

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 243 – 254

Contributors

author

Michael Blamauer

• Institut fűr Philosophie, Fakultat fűr Philosophie und Bildungswissenschaft, Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG), 1010 Wienna, Austria