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Résumé Banni de l’empire des grands Qing après son moment de gloire à la tête du gouvernement réformateur de 1898, Kang Youwei (1858-1927) passera quinze   ans en exil. Après un séjour initial au Japon, il entamera un tour du monde. À chaque étape, il …

Présidence   : Michael Murez Résumé Various anti-physicalist arguments hinge on the idea that phenomenal concepts reveal the nature of their referents to us. I shall consider various models for this kind of phenomenal revelation and argue that none can …

Présidence   : Julien Bugnon Résumé Following recent usage, I use ‘coordination’ to refer to the relation that Fregeans have conceived of as sameness of sense. To a first approximation, representations are coordinated when the fact they are about the same …

Présidence   : Matheus Valente Résumé According to Phenomenal Transparency, experiencing a phenomenal property puts one is in a position to acquire knowledge of its essence. In this paper, I will argue that Phenomenal Transparency risks forcing upon us a …

Présidence   : Julien Bugnon Résumé If God exists necessarily and is essentially conscious, then there is a conscious being in every possible world. However, it is conceivable that nothing is conscious, which perhaps gives us reason to think that it’s …

Résumé It’s often said within epistemology circles that self-locating beliefs about now and then change in peculiar ways incompatible with traditional Bayesian update rules, and so, that these beliefs are epistemically exceptional. The point is clear …

Résumé As is well-known, Travis and his followers have argued that the individuation of thoughts is an occasion-sensitive matter (Travis 2000, 2017; Dobler 2020; see also Putnam 2002). This means that the semantic and cognitive individuation of …

Résumé According to Fregean theories, thinking the same thought requires thinking not only about the same referent, but also thinking about it in the same way, under the same concept. Fregean theories face ‘Schiffer’s Puzzle’ (Schiffer, 2005; Buchanan, …

Résumé In relation to Frege’s claim that one can express the same thought today by means of ‘yesterday’ that one expressed yesterday by means of ‘today’, Perry remarks: But should the Thought be the same? The belief expressed by "The midterm elections be …

Présidence   : Rachel Goodman Résumé Let a property concept be transparent if and only if a thinker who has acquired such a concept is in a position to fully understand the nature of the property it is a concept of. Proponents of phenomenal transparency …

Résumé With roots in Frege’s famous remarks (1956, 296), reflection on Rip van Winkle’s fantastic story has played a key role in the philosophical study of indexical dynamics (Kaplan 1989, Perry 1997, Branquinho 2008, Ludlow 2019). Consider now the …

Présidence   : Rachel Goodman Résumé I will use the clinical phenomenon of thought insertion as a test case for a comparison between some of the available accounts of the concept of self we use in de se thoughts, namely those thoughts we would most …