Lexicon of Arguments

 Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
[german]


Complaints - Corrections

Table
Concepts
Versus
Sc. Camps
Theses I
Theses II

Concept/Author*  

What is wrong?
Page
Other metadata
Translation
Excerpt or content
Other

Correction: Year / Place / Page
/ /

Correction:
(max 500 charact.)

Your username*
or User-ID

Email address*

The complaint
will not be published.

 
Frank I 554f
Brains in a vat/BIV/Evans: in the situation of the brains in a vat there are no truth-makers - if the subject learns the truth, it would have to hold itself for "nowhere located".
Senseless/meaningless: to identify himself: "I am a brain". - The body or localization is crucial.
Contrary to this: e.g. brain transplant: here there is a history: the brain would be experienced as "somewhere". ((s) Cf. >Identity/Parfit).



Gareth Evans(1982): Self-Identification, in: G.Evans The Varieties of Reference, ed. by John McDowell,
Oxford/NewYork 1982, 204-266

Found an error? Use our Complaint Form. Perhaps someone forgot to close a bracket? A page number is wrong?
Help us to improve our lexicon.
However, if you are of a different opinion, as regards the validity of the argument, post your own argument beside the contested one.
The correction will be sent to the contributor of the original entry to get his opinion about.