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Phenomenal character and the epistemic role of perception

Synthese
C. Raineri
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Yes, Phenomenal Character Really Is Out There In The World

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2015
M. Tye
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Self-Consciousness and Phenomenal Character

Dialogue, 2005
ABSTRACTThis article defends two theses: that a mental state is conscious if and only if it has phenomenal character, i.e., if and only if there is something it is like for the subject to be in that state, and that all state consciousness involves selfconsciousness, in the sense that a mental state is conscious if and only if its possessor is, in some ...
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Mental Agency, Conscious Thinking, and Phenomenal Character

2009
Matthew Soteriou
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Phenomenal Intentionality and Derived Intentionality A Commentary on David Pitt's The Quality of Thought

Journal of Consciousness Studies
David Pitt's The Quality of Thought defends a hardcore version of phenomenal intentionalism, the view that at least the most basic kind of intentionality is nothing over and above phenomenal consciousness.
Angela Mendelovici
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A new obstacle for phenomenal contrast

The Philosophical Quarterly
Phenomenal Contrast Arguments (PCAs) are a prominent method in philosophy of mind for, among other uses, investigating how specific mental features shape the phenomenal character of experience. This paper identifies a general and underexplored obstacle
Matthew Fulkerson, Jonathan Cohen
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The representational and phenomenal richness of perceptual experience

THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science
This paper deals with the issue of the admissible content of perceptual experience at the centre of the debate that opposes Conservatives and Liberals —who advocate, respectively, a Sparse and a Rich Content-View— and aims, specifically, to consider how ...
E. Sacchi
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Phenomenally Mine: In Search of the Subjective Character of Consciousness

Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2016
It’s a familiar fact that there is something it is like to see red, eat chocolate or feel pain. More recently philosophers have insisted that in addition to this objectual phenomenology there is something it is like for me to eat chocolate, and this for-me-ness is no less there than the chocolatishness.
Robert J. Howell, Brad Thompson
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The Phenomenal Character of Seeing

1997
Abstract Although chapter 4 addressed the question of the logical form of visual content, I have assiduously avoided, wherever possible, implicating myself in further ques tions about visual consciousness. But in earlier discussions, it was stressed that vision is phenomenal, hardly a claim to let pass without comment.
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Arguments About Phenomenal Character

The phenomenal character of an experience is what it is like to have it. This dissertation investigates the nature of phenomenal character, with a focus on the character of experiences of a certain sort: perceptual experiences. Most theorists agree that perceptual phenomenal character involves the presentation of various things or “contents,” but they ...
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