Add to ORKGtextIt is widely agreed that some concepts can be possessed only by those who have undergone a certain type of phenomenal experience. The orthodox view among contemporary philosophers of mind that these phenomenal concepts provide the key to understanding the dispute between physicalists and their opponents. I reject the orthodox view; I defend an externalist conception of mental content according to which there are no phenomenal concepts. But the fact that there are no phenomenal concepts should not worry the physicalist: there are better accounts of the data that phenomenal concepts are used to explain.Philosoph
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There’s a long but relatively neglected tradition of attempting to explain why many researchers work...
If the mind of a sentient being would be reducible to its structure, any system with identical struc...
This Target paper is about the hard problem of phenomenal consciousness (i.e., how is subjective exp...
During the last two decades, several different anti-physicalist arguments based on an epistemic or c...
In this work, I have three related aims. First, I attempt to show that none of the popular responses...
A number of recent objections to physicalism are based on the apparent gap between physical knowledg...
The Phenomenal Concept Strategy offers the physicalist perhaps the most promising means of explainin...
In this thesis, I shall examine the question of physicalism through two papers criticising the formu...
The phenomenal concept strategy is considered a powerful response to anti-physicalist arguments. Thi...
Phenomenal concepts are the concepts that we deploy when – but arguably not only when – we ...
A phenomenal concept is the concept of a particular type of sensory or perceptual experience, where ...
It has long been widely agreed that some concepts can be possessed only by those who have undergone ...
Classical anti-physicalist reasoning about phenomenal consciousness involves two related theses: (1)...
I explore various claims about the nature of phenomenal concepts and isolate two recurring intuition...
There’s a long but relatively neglected tradition of attempting to explain why many researchers work...
If the mind of a sentient being would be reducible to its structure, any system with identical struc...
This Target paper is about the hard problem of phenomenal consciousness (i.e., how is subjective exp...
During the last two decades, several different anti-physicalist arguments based on an epistemic or c...
In this work, I have three related aims. First, I attempt to show that none of the popular responses...
A number of recent objections to physicalism are based on the apparent gap between physical knowledg...
The Phenomenal Concept Strategy offers the physicalist perhaps the most promising means of explainin...
In this thesis, I shall examine the question of physicalism through two papers criticising the formu...
The phenomenal concept strategy is considered a powerful response to anti-physicalist arguments. Thi...
Phenomenal concepts are the concepts that we deploy when – but arguably not only when – we ...
A phenomenal concept is the concept of a particular type of sensory or perceptual experience, where ...
It has long been widely agreed that some concepts can be possessed only by those who have undergone ...
Classical anti-physicalist reasoning about phenomenal consciousness involves two related theses: (1)...
I explore various claims about the nature of phenomenal concepts and isolate two recurring intuition...
There’s a long but relatively neglected tradition of attempting to explain why many researchers work...
If the mind of a sentient being would be reducible to its structure, any system with identical struc...