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    About Me – on the Alleged Mysteriousness of the First-Person Perspective for Naturalism.Gerson Reuter & Oliver Schütze - 2023 - Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 77 (2):125-151.
    Naturalistic understandings of the mind face certain hurdles. Many authors believe that some such hurdles are even insurmountable. A frequently used but rarely developed and tested argumentative move claims that, because they are made from the so-called observer perspective, naturalization efforts inevitably fail for reasons connected to our first-person perspective. We are not convinced. However, this article primarily attempts to gain a better understanding of the point and scope of this move by discussing an argument by Holm Tetens from which (...)
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    Eine kurze Verteidigung philosophischer Erklärungen.Jasper Liptow & Gerson Reuter - 2015 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 63 (3).
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  3. Social Roots of Self-Consciousness. Psychological and Philosophical Contributions.W. Mack & Gerson Reuter (eds.) - 2009
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    Die Rolle der Vorstellungskraft für unsere Musikwahrnehmung: das Phänomen des Hörens-als.Gerson Reuter - 2015 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 63 (4).
    The widely held belief that classical instrumental music has some kind of content - whether it is supposed to be some language-like meaning or some distinctive and possibly untranslatable musical content - is notoriously difficult to defend. One of the probably rather few promising options of analysing our experiences of hearing ‘content in music’ starts with the assumption that we, the listeners of music, endow the heard musical sequences with content. In the paper, I defend this anti-realism concerning musical content (...)
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    Human Life: Our Essentially Biological Nature and the Role of Mental Capabilities.Gerson Reuter - 2020 - Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 74 (3):365-391.
    Animalism is the view that we are primarily living beings of the species Homo sapiens. Being alive consists in the realization of biological processes. Accordingly, our conditions of existence and persistence have nothing to do with things like mental continuity. Hence, mental capabilities seem to be irrelevant to understanding the core of our nature as human beings. In recent years, the debate on animalism has focused on certain intractable ontological puzzles. However important these puzzles may be, they do not get (...)
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  6. Imagination and its role in understanding the experiences of others.Gerson Reuter & Matthias Vogel - 2024 - In Íngrid Vendrell-Ferran & Christiana Werner (eds.), Imagination and Experience: Philosophical Explorations. New York, NY: Routledge.
     
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    Must one be able to think “no”? On the allegedly indispensable role of negation in thinking.Gerson Reuter - 2012 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 86 (1):247-263.
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    Musik ohne musikalische Gehalte – Warum auch nicht?Gerson Reuter - 2013 - Zeitschrift für Ästhetik Und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 58 (2):81-105.
    We are used to describe instrumental music in semantic terms. Many of our judgements about music – at least if taken literally – seem to implicate that music is capable of expressing thoughts and emotions, for example. Moreover, in the course of listening to music, we actually seem to hear that music has such (and similar) contents. The main aim of the paper consists in presenting reasons for being skeptical towards such claims. Not only are these claims less plausible than (...)
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    Wir sind biologische Lebewesen- einige Folgeprobleme einer auf den ersten Blick eingängigen These.Gerson Reuter - 2011 - Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 36 (2):196-216.
    One of the central claims in Ansgar Beckermann’s Gehirn, Ich, Freiheit is that we are biological beings. Somewhat strikingly, the book manages to convey the impression that this is a rather uncontroversial claim. Actually, the opposite is closer to the truth – or so I will try to argue. That it is a controversial claim can be shown by pointing out some of its problematic and seemingly implausible consequences. These consequences come into view by attempting to answer the questions, what (...)
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    Wie viel Geschichte steckt in sprachlichen Bedeutungen?Gerson Reuter - 2019 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (5):744-763.
    Certainly, we sometimes use language creatively and think really new thoughts. However, can we think and speak regardless of the manner in which we have spoken and thought in the past? This seems to be highly improbable. Consequently, nobody would assert something like this. But that being a given, what are the exact reasons that prevent us from radically detaching ourselves from our past practices of thinking and speaking? What roles do past facts play in determining what we are able (...)
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    (1 other version)Was wir grundlegend sind: Menschen unter anderen biologischen Einzeldingen: Überlegungen zu unserer Natur und unseren transtemporalen Identitätsbedingungen.Gerson Reuter - 2018 - Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann.
    English summary: In its core, this book represents a defense of the thesis that we are essentially biological creatures of the species Homo sapiens - and not essentially persons. This thesis has consequences for the problem of personal identity. An important aspect of its defense - and the book's second central line of argumentation - is, therefore, to substantiate that ours are the diachronic identity conditions of biological beings. Attempting to reach both argumentation goals, one has to overcome some obstacles, (...)
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