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Reductive Explanation and the ‘Explanatory Gap’

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2004
Can phenomenal consciousness be given a reductive natural explanation? Exponents of an ‘explanatory gap’ between physical, functional and intentional facts, on the one hand, and the facts of phenomenal consciousness, on the other, argue that there are reasons of principle why phenomenal consciousness cannot be reductively explained: Jackson (1982 ...
P. Carruthers
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Cortical Activity and the Explanatory Gap

Consciousness and Cognition, 1998
An exploration is given of neural network features now being uncovered in cortical processing which begins to go a little way to help bridge the "Explanatory Gap" between phenomenal consciousness and correlated brain activity. A survey of properties suggested as being possessed by phenomenal consciousness leads to a set of criteria to be required of ...
John G. Taylor, John G. Taylor
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The Explanatory Gap

2009
Abstract This article outlines the strategy for reconciling materialism and the explanatory gap. As one might imagine, there are a number of complex issues that must be sorted out concerning the alleged special nature of phenomenal concepts, and their alleged incommensurability with non-phenomenal concepts, before one can determine ...
J. Levine
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Phenomenology, Objectivity, and the Explanatory Gap

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2017
AbstractThere has been much recent discussion of whether Husserlian phenomenology might be relevant to the explanatory gap—the problem of explaining how conscious experience arises from nonexperiential events or processes. However, some phenomenologists have argued that the explanatory gap is a confused problem, because it starts by assuming a false ...
Donnchadh Ó Conaill
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What Exactly is the Explanatory Gap?

Philosophia, 2010
It is widely agreed among contemporary philosophers of mind that science leaves us with an ‘explanatory gap’—that even after we know everything that science can tell us about the conscious mind and the brain, their relationship still remains mysterious. I argue that this agreed view is quite mistaken.
D. Papineau
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