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The Flying and the Masked Man, One More Time : Comments on Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich, ‘The Thought Experimental Method : Avicenna’s Flying Man Argument’ (2020)

Kaukua, J. (2020). The Flying and the Masked Man, One More Time : Comments on Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich, ‘The Thought Experimental Method : Avicenna’s Flying Man Argument’. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 6(3), 285-296. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2019.52

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Kaukua, Jari

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Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Kaukua, Jari

Lehti tai sarja: Journal of the American Philosophical Association

ISSN: 2053-4477

eISSN: 2053-4485

Julkaisuvuosi: 2020

Volyymi: 6

Lehden numero: 3

Artikkelin sivunumerot: 285-296

Kustantaja: Cambridge University Press

Julkaisumaa: Britannia

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2019.52

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Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/71746

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This is a critical comment on Adamson and Benevich 2018, published in issue 4/2 of the J-APA. I raise two closely related objections. The first concerns the objective of the flying man: instead of the question of what the soul is, I argue that it is designed to answer the question of whether the soul exists independently of the body. The second objection concerns the expected result of the argument: instead of knowledge about the quiddity of soul, I claim it yields knowledge about the soul’s existence independently of the body. After the objections, I turn to the masked man fallacy, claiming that although the Adamson-Benevich interpretation does save the argument from the fallacy, this comes at the cost of plausibility. I then give a more modest interpretation that both avoids the fallacy and is plausible. The paper concludes with a remark about the metaphysical possibility of the flying man.

YSO-asiasanat: arabialainen filosofia; mielenfilosofia; tietoisuus; sielu

Vapaat asiasanat: Avicenna; flying man; thought experiments

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