An Analysis on McGinn’s Mysterianism: Reply to Erhan Demircioglu

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2017-02-01

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Işıkgil, Sena

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This paper discusses Erhan Demicioglu’s approach to McGinn’s mysterianism. Demircioglu argues that the reasons why McGinn considers his cognitive closure idea to be true with respect to the solution of the mind-brain problem are not compatible with his claim about the existence of a naturalist solution to the mind-brain problem. However, I consider such a criticism to be the result of missing some important details in McGinn’s thesis on cognitive closure. In this study by analysing McGinn’s mysterianism I show that no contradiction exists between the reasons why McGinn presented his cognitive closure thesis and the existence of a naturalist solution to the mind-body problem.

Subject Keywords

Erhan Demircioglu, Cognitive closure

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http://philosophy.mersin.edu.tr/
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/77035

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KİLİKYA FELSEFE DERGİSİ

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https://doi.org/10.5840/kilikya2017412

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Department of Philosophy, Article

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S. Işıkgil, “An Analysis on McGinn’s Mysterianism: Reply to Erhan Demircioglu,” KİLİKYA FELSEFE DERGİSİ, pp. 11–18, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://philosophy.mersin.edu.tr/.