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Apr 22
6 min

Knowledge-First as a Naturalistic Epistemology

My aim in this series of blog posts is to consider the extent to which the knowledge-first epistemology can solve what I have been referr...

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Cecily Whiteley

Apr 20
5 min

A New Naturalistic Epistemology?

In the previous posts, I hinted that the unification challenge for knowledge-first epistemology outlined there could be best answered via...

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Cecily Whiteley

Apr 19
5 min

Motivating the Unification Challenge: Two Approaches

In the previous post, I stated that knowledge-first epistemology - the recent movement which state that knowledge has theoretical priorit...

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Cecily Whiteley

Apr 18
2 min

The Unification Challenge for Knowledge-First Epistemology

If one endorses a ‘knowledge-first’ epistemology, one tends to believe that the analytic project at the heart of traditional epistemology...

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Cecily Whiteley

Feb 7, 2019
7 min

The Naturalisation of Consciousness

Lot’s of contemporary metaphysics must go, it seems, but is consciousness here to stay? Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the pa...

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Cecily Whiteley

Feb 6, 2019
8 min

The Neutrality Thesis, Neural Correlates and the Encroachment of Science on Metaphysics

Ask a philosopher of mind about the relation between the metaphysics and science of consciousness and they will usually respond in the f...

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Cecily Whiteley

Feb 4, 2019
3 min

On the Relation Between the Science and Philosophy of Consciousness

The problem of consciousness functions as something akin to a Highly Addictive Substance to the philosophically inclined mind. Promising ...

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