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On Experiencing Meaning: Irreducible Cognitive Phenomenology and Sinewave Speech [PDF]

Phenomenology and Mind, 2017
Upon first hearing sinewaves, all that can be discerned are beeps and whistles. But after hearing the original speech, the beeps and whistles sound like speech.
Dorsch, John Joseph
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Content, object, and phenomenal character

Principia: 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. Part of the dispute, I claim here, is based on a lack of grasp of the notion of content. There is, however, a core of substantial disagreement. Once the substantial core is revealed, I aim to:
Marco Aurélio Sousa Alves
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How-tests for consciousness and direct neurophenomenal structuralism. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Despite recent criticism, the search for neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs) is still at the core of a contemporary neuroscience of consciousness.
Fink SB.
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Is All Phenomenology Presentational?

Ergo, 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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Capacitism as a New Solution to Mary's puzzle [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2020
In this paper, I argue for a new solution to Mary’s puzzle in Jackson’s famous knowledge argument. We are told that imprisoned Mary knows all facts or truths about color and color vision.
Roberto Horácio de Sá Pereira
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Attentional Structure and Phenomenal Unity

Open Philosophy, 2022
Some authors argue that phenomenal unity can be grounded in the attentional structure of consciousness, which endows conscious states with at least a foreground and a background.
Wiese Wanja
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The Epistemic Value of Music [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
Assuming that music can be expressive, I try to answer the question whether musical expressiveness has epistemic value. The article has six parts. In the first part, I provide examples of what music can express. I suggest that it can express inner states
Marina Bakalova
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Consideraciones sobre la percepción desde la perspectiva enactiva

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2020
This article reviews the enactive approach to perception, which defends the role of objects, the subject and the environment in the configuration of the phenomenal character of perception, that is, the qualitative dimension of experience.
Ana Lorena Dominguez Rojas
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Visual Experiences without Presentational Phenomenology

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2021
A number of philosophers claim that visual experiences have a peculiar phenomenal character that is “presentational”. According to what I call the “Visual Presentationality Thesis”, this peculiar phenomenal character, presentational phenomenology, is not
Kengo Miyazono
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Is there introspective evidence for phenomenal intentionality? [PDF]

, 2016
The so-called transparency of experience (TE) is the intuition that, in introspecting one’s own experience, one is only aware of certain properties (like colors, shapes, etc.) as features of (apparently) mind-independent objects.
Bordini, Davide
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