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I am working as a lecturer on philosophy at Zaporizhzhya State Medical and Pharmaceutical University (Ukraine).
My primary areas of interest are philosophy of mind (here, I favour interactionist substance dualism),
free will (I tend to libertarianism), and philosophy of science (especially, Karl Popper's philosophy and critical rationalism generally).
I have written and published two books in Ukrainian, and a number of articles in Ukrainian and English.
My first book was on liberal political philosophy and philosophy
of science of 20th century – mostly considering the views of K.Popper, F. von Hayek,
L. von Mises, I.Berlin, G.Soros – Open Society: Ethics and Rationality (the title translated from Ukrainian).
The second book was on the mind-body problem - The Mind as Subjectivity: the Mystery of the Self.
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Here are my works in English:
Chapters of the book
The Mind as Subjectivity: the Mystery of the Self
Articles
Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Free Will
Sepetyi, D. (2024). Dualism, the Causal Closure of the Physical, and Philip Goff’s Case for Panpsychism. Metaphysica 25(1).
Sepetyi, D. (2023) The Knowledge Argument Against Materialism and the Strategy of Phenomenal Concepts. Filosofska Dumka ¹3.
Sepetyi, D. (2023). Does matter have non-dispositional intrinsic qualities? Sydney Shoåmaker against quidditism. Actual Problems of Mind 24.
Sepetyi, D. (2022) Robert Kirk’s Attempted Intellectual Filicide: Are Phenomenal Zombies Hurt? Organon F 29(1).
Sepetyi, D. (2021) Metaphysical Foundations of Causation: Powers or Laws of Nature? Metaphisica 22(2): 295-309.
Sepetyi, D. (2020) John Foster’s Phenomenalistic Idealism under Scrutiny. Filosofska Dumka ¹2: 102-118.
Sepetyi, D. (2019) John Searle’s Naturalism as a Hybrid (Property-Substance) Version of Naturalistic Psychophysical Dualism. Disputatio 11: 23-44.
Sepetyi, D. (2019) Why Phenomenal Zombies are Conceivable Whereas Anti-Zombies Are Not. Actual Problems of Mind 20: 18-28.
Sepetyi, D. (2018) Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness: No Evidence for Idealism. Filosofska Dumka ¹4: 95-105.
Sepetyi, D. (2018) Making sense of the puzzle of matter: Idealistic Challenge and Quasi-Kantian Response. Filosofska Dumka ¹2: 115-130.
Sepetyi, D. (2017) The Soul and Personal Identity. Derek Parfit’s Arguments in the Substance Dualist Perspective. Perichoresis 15 (2): 3-23.
Sepetyi, D. (2017) Interactionism vs Epiphenomenalism: Unclosing the Causal Closure of the Physical. Filosofska Dumka ¹5: 113-128.
Sepetyi, D. (2017) The Conceivability-to-Possibility Entailment: How It Does (not) Work. The Philosophical Forum 48(3): 273-286.
Sepetyi, D. (2017) Can the Chinese Robot Think? Philosophy and Cosmology 19: 143-153.
Philosophy of Science
Sepetyi, D. (2025). Popper’s and Lakatos’s philosophies of science: main differences. Actual Problems of Mind 26.
Sepetyi, D. (2025). Popper and Lakatos on what is distinctive about empirical science. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 38(1).
Sepetyi, D. (2024). Rationalism Critical and Pancritical: What Did Popper and Bartley Disagree About? HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 14(1).
Sepetyi, D. (2024). The Demarcation Problem: Karl Popper’s Solution in the Contemporary Retrospective. Actual Problems of Mind 25.
Sepetyi, D. (2023). Are Scientific Revolutions Predetermined? Critical Appraisal of Wojciech Sady’s "Struktura rewolucji relatywistycznej i kwantowej w fizyce" (The Structure of the Relativistic and Quantum Revolution in Physics). Filozofia Nauki 31(1)
Sepetyi, D. (2021) Karl Popper’s solution to the problem of induction and the non-justificationist conception of rationality. Actual Problems of Mind 22.
Sepetyi, D. (2020) Non-justificationism and the negativist legend about Karl Popper’s philosophy. Actual Problems of Mind 21.
Sepetyi, D. (2019) The Third Realm and the Failure of its Naturalization in Karl Popper’s Conception of World. Visnyk of the Lviv University Series Philosophical Sciences 23: 5-11.
Philosophy of Language
Sepetyi, D. (2023) Natural Kinds and a posteriori Necessities: Putnam pro Kripke, Putnam versus Kripke. Filosofska Dumka ¹2.
Sepetyi, D. (2022) Anti-Kripkean Intuitions: Conceptualism versus Essentialism. Filosofska Dumka ¹1.
Sepetyi, D. (2020) Being Sceptical about Kripkean A Posteriori Necessities and Natural Kinds. Filosofska Dumka ¹6.
History of Philosophy
Sepetyi, D. (2023). Descartes’ Notion of Meum Corpus and Jean-Luc Marion’s Challenge to “the Myth of Cartesian Dualism”. Sententiae 42(2).
Sepetyi, D. (2022) Mind-body interaction, physical causation, and the natures of substances in Descartes’s philosophy. Actual Problems of Mind 23.
Sepetyi, D. (2021) The Problem of Mind-Body Interaction and the Causal Principle of Descartes’s Third Meditation. Sententiae 40(1).
Sepetyi, D. (2019) Forty years after: reconsidering the problem of Descartes’s Natural Institution. Filosofska Dumka ¹1: 106-119.
Bioethics
Sepetyi, D. (2025). Personal identity and bioethical issues in the vicinity: The pluralistic approach to diachronic persistence. Actual Problems of Mind 27.
I’ll be glad to communicate and get comments and criticisms by e-mail:
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