2025-12-17
Shana Pardo
This article aims to explain the non-referential uses of referential expressions through the concept of inhibition. Taking functional referentialism as a starting point, I analyze how different inhibitors affect different types of pure indexicals. Based on this analysis, I characterize two forms of inhibition of the referential reading of pure indexicals: temporal inhibition, generated by temporal adverbs of frequency, and quantificational inhibition, produced by universal and existential quantifiers. I conclude that inhibition offers a systematic account of the non-referential uses of pure indexicals and allows for a better understanding of how certain linguistic constructions modify their interpretation.
2025-12-17
Armando Lavalle Terrón, David Rey
Maite Ezcurdia, Complejidad y ambigüedad , Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México–Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, México, 2022, 294pp. ISBN 978–607–30–6816–1
2025-12-17
Sergio Cermeño Aínsa
In this article, I evaluate which version of panpsychism is best suited to address the challenges faced by a theory of consciousness. I first argue that a panpsychist theory is more likely to be successful if it meets two conditions: (1) it must be compatible with the Integrated Information Theory (IIT), and (2) it must provide at least a preliminary indication of how to solve the combination problem. I consider three main versions of panpsychism: constitutive panpsychism micropanpsychism and cosmopanpsychism), emergent panpsychism (strong and weak), and panprotopsychism (panqualitivist and panexperientialist). I conclude that weak emergent panpsychism, together with the two variants of panprotopsychism (panqualitivism and panexperientialism), or a combination of these approaches, shows genuine potential for panpsychism to remain a coherent and viable position.