Sydney Shoemaker

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Sydney Shoemaker


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January 01, 1931

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Sydney Shoemaker is an American philosopher. Until his retirement, he was a Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. He holds a PhD from Cornell and BA from Reed. In 1971, he delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University. He has worked primarily in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, and has many classic papers in both of these areas (as well as their overlap). In "Functionalism and Qualia" (1975), he argues that functionalism about mental states can account for the qualitative character (or 'raw feel') of mental states. In "Self-Reference and Self-Awareness" (1968), he argues that the phenomenon of absolute 'Immunity to Error Through Misidentification' is what distinguishes self-attributions of mental sta ...more

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Personal Identity

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A Physicalist Manifesto: Th...

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Physical Realization

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The First-Person Perspectiv...

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Identity, Cause, and Mind: ...

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Self-Knowledge and Self Ide...

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