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Content, Object, and Phenomenal Character

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2012
The view that perceptual experience has representational content, or the content view, has recently been criticized by the defenders of the so-called object view.
Marco Aurélio Sousa Alves
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Dreaming, Phenomenal Character, and Acquaintance

open access: yes, 2019
Abstract Dreams are often defined as sleeping experiences with phenomenal character similar to perceptions of the real world. Hence they pose a prima facie challenge to accounts of phenomenal character in terms of acquaintance relations. One response is disjunctivist: to give a different account of their phenomenal character from that of
T. Stoneham
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Affordances and Phenomenal Character in Spatial Perception

open access: yesPhilosophical Review, The, 2011
According to intentionalism the phenomenal character (“what it’s like”) of a conscious experience is determined wholly by its representational content. In its strongest forms intentionalism offers the tantalizing prospect of a reduction of phenomenal character to representational content. Arguments based on Twin Earth-like scenarios have shown, however,
Prosser Simon
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The Conscious and Phenomenal Character of Thought: Reflections on Their Possible Dissociation

open access: yesPhenomenology and Mind, 2017
In this paper I focus on what we can call “the obvious assumption” in the debate between defenders and deniers (of the reductionist sort) of cognitive phenomenology: conscious thought is phenomenal and phenomenal thought is conscious. This assumption can
Marta Jorba
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How-tests for consciousness and direct neurophenomenal structuralism [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Despite recent criticism, the search for neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs) is still at the core of a contemporary neuroscience of consciousness.
Sascha Benjamin Fink   +1 more
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More of me! Less of me!: Reflexive Imperativism about Affective Phenomenal Character

open access: yesMind, 2019
Experiences like pains, pleasures, and emotions have affective phenomenal character: they feel pleasant or unpleasant. Imperativism proposes to explain affective phenomenal character by appeal to imperative content, a kind of intentional content that ...
Luca Barlassina, Max Khan Hayward
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On Phenomenal Character and Petri Dishes

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Research, 2014
Michael Tye (2007) argues that phenomenal character cannot be an intrinsic microphysical property of experiences (or be necessitated by intrinsic microphysical properties) because this would entail that experience could occur in a chunk of tissue in a Petri dish.
G. Bartlett
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Is All Phenomenology Presentational?

open access: yesErgo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2022
This paper is about two questions in contemporary philosophy of mind, which I call the Scope Question and the Marks Question. The Scope Question is this: What kinds of mental states (events or processes) have phenomenal character, and how many different ...
Peter V. Forrest
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