Unstable Ontology

An uncentered world is an objective state-trajectory of the material universe; I ignore quantum complications.

The Sleeping Beauty problem is a famous philosophical puzzle.

Type B physicalism is a view in philosophy of mind, and “powerful qualities” (PQ) theory is a view in the metaphysics of properties.

I will examine the concept of chirality (the difference between a right hand and a left hand, generalized) and its relevance to philosophy of mind.

In philosophy of mind, “mental causation” means mental entities have causal effects, especially physical ones.

Why does quantum mechanics use complex numbers extensively?

David Chalmers describes the inverted qualia thought experiment, in The Conscious Mind, as an argument against logical supervenience of phenomenal experience on physical states: one can coherently imagine a physically identical world in which conscious ex…

Why are linear functions between finite-dimensional vector spaces representable by matrices?

I present a step-by-step argument in philosophy of mind.

Sometimes, a philosophy debate has two basic positions, call them A and B.