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    Correction to: Fundamental mentality in a physical world
    (Springer, 2020-11-09) Brown, Christopher Devlin
    Regardless of whatever else physicalism requires, nearly all philosophers agree that physicalism cannot be true in a world which contains fundamental mentality. I challenge this widely held attitude, and describe a world which is plausibly all-physical, yet which may contain fundamental mentality. This is a world in which priority monism is true—which is the view that the whole of the cosmos is fundamental, with dependence relations directed from the whole to the parts—and which contains only a single mental system, like a brain or computer. Because some properties of the whole are fundamental under priority monism, it follows that that the mental properties of a cosmos-encompassing brain or computer system may be fundamental in a priority monist world. Yet such a world need not contain anything physically unacceptable: the mental properties of the cosmos-encompassing brain or computer can be characterized in a physicalism-friendly functionalist or identity-theoretic way. Thus, as I see it, physicalism need not be false in such a world. This constitutes a challenge to those who hold the view that physicalism is inconsistent with the existence of fundamental mentality.
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    Fundamental mentality in a physical world
    (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2020) Brown, Christopher Devlin
    Regardless of whatever else physicalism requires, nearly all philosophers agree that physicalism cannot be true in a world which contains fundamental mentality. I challenge this widely held attitude, and describe a world which is plausibly all-physical, yet which may contain fundamental mentality. This is a world in which priority monism is true—which is the view that the whole of the cosmos is fundamental, with dependence relations directed from the whole to the parts—and which contains only a single mental system, like a brain or computer. Because some properties of the whole are fundamental under priority monism, it follows that that the mental properties of a cosmos-encompassing brain or computer system may be fundamental in a priority monist world. Yet such a world need not contain anything physically unacceptable: the mental properties of the cosmos-encompassing brain or computer can be characterized in a physicalism-friendly functionalist or identity-theoretic way. Thus, as I see it, physicalism need not be false in such a world. This constitutes a challenge to those who hold the view that physicalism is inconsistent with the existence of fundamental mentality.
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    Plant mind through amalgamated functionalism and its impact on the definition of mind
    (2021-05) Meriç, Cansu İrem
    The definition of the mind seems to be a vague and unstable one in the philosophy of mind. This thesis aims to find some solid features through which we could define the mind or chose to remove from its definition with the aid of the analyses of plants, a species quite unlike human beings, and the cognitive capabilities they seemed to possess. After evading the recent objections against multiple realization theory, which is a theory placed at the core of functionalism, and reconciling the embodied and extended mind theses with it, functionalism (or as it is indicated in the thesis; amalgamated functionalism) has taken as the leading theory of mind. The plant mind is investigated in the light of this amalgamated functionalism. The thesis presents the familiar cognitive capabilities plants have and makes a suggestion on which features we definitely should or should not include in the general definition of the mind. In the end, a decision has been made on whether plants are beings endowed with the faculty of the mind.
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    Profesyonel fotoğrafçı Sabit Kalfagil'in hayatı
    (Bilkent University, 2018) Oktay, Zeynep; Aktürk, Sena; Akengin, Ege; Bardakçı, İrem; Çolak, Ahmet
    Fotoğrafçılık sanatı yıllar boyunca çeşitli değişim ve gelişimlere uğrayarak günümüze kadar farklı tekniksel yöntemleri taşımıştır. Dünyada olduğu gibi ülkemizde de çeşitli fotoğrafçılar bu sanat dalında adlarını duyurmuş ve çeşitli teknik ve çalışmaları bu sanat dalına katmışlardır. Sabit Kalfagil de bu fotoğrafçılardan birisidir. Kendisi Türkiye’nin önde gelen fotoğrafçılarındandır. Asıl mesleği olan mimarlığın da etkisiyle farklı teknikler kullanarak hem Türkiye’deki fotoğrafçılık algısına hem de kullanılan tekniklere farklı bir boyut kazandırmıştır. Esas mesleği mimarlık olmasına rağmen hem dönemin koşullarının etkisiyle hem de yavaş yavaş fotoğrafçılığa ilgi duymasıyla beraber mesleğini bırakarak fotoğrafçılığı profesyonel olarak icra etmeye başlamıştır. Fotoğrafçılığı hem teknik olarak ilerleterek çeşitli değerli eserleri literatüre kazandırmıştır, hem de akademik olarak bu alanda ilerleyerek insanlara fotoğrafçılığın anlamını, amacını ve tekniklerini öğretmeyi amaçlamıştır Kalfagil 5 Mayıs 2017 tarihinde vefat ederken, arkasında çok sayıda sergi, akademik çalışmalar, fotoğrafçılığa dair oldukça önemli gelişmeler ve bakış açıları bırakmıştır.
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