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Physicalism and the nature of phenomenal concepts

Revista de Filosofia, 2010
In recent years, a number of authors have tried to respond to Frank Jackson’s so-called “Knowledge Argument” against physicalism by appealing to phenomenal concepts, that is, concepts under which fall the phenomenal aspect of our experiences, or, to put ...
André Joffily Abath
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Phenomenal Consciousness; a Challenge to Physicalism [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
The undeniable success of neuroscience in explaining human mental states, which in the past were explained in terms of supernatural concepts, has led many modern-day scientists and philosophers to advocate physicalist methods in explaining human nature ...
Samad Hosseini, Abbas Yazdani
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Leaving the Dream Behind: Why the Metaphysics of Consciousness cannot be Unveiled by Conceivability Arguments

Problemos, 2023
 In this paper, I present a novel objection to Chalmers’s “master argument” against the privileged strategy of ‘type B’ physicalists to account for the explanatory gap (the “phenomenal concepts strategy”).
Luis Alejandro Murillo-Lara
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Does the Conceivability of Zombies Entail Their Possibility? [PDF]

Organon F, 2020
According to the two-dimensional argument against materialism, developed by David Chalmers, the conceivability of zombies entails primary possibility, and the primary possibility of zombies entails further secondary possibility.
Karol Polcyn
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What could the phenomenal identity be? Considerations on the basis of retrospective description of my own research and analyses of the concepts of philosophy

Podstawy Edukacji, 2022
The text is a re-examination of the reflections that result from theoretical analyses of my earlier research. They concerned metaphorical thinking, seeing and constructing visual analogies and the critical thinking of an allegorist using irony.
Małgorzata Muszyńska
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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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Concurring Emotions, Affective Empathy, and Phenomenal Understanding

Passion, 2023
According to an optimistic view, affective empathy is a route to knowledge of what it is like to be in the target person’s state (“phenomenal knowledge”).
Christiana Werner
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The problem of consciousness: an assessment of Michael Tye’s and David Chalmers’ criticisms of the phenomenal concept strategy

Inkanyiso, 2017
This paper presents a critical assessment of Michael Tye’s and David Chalmers’ criticisms of the phenomenal concept strategy. The assessment is done with a view to defend the phenomenal concept strategy against Tye’s and Chalmers’ arguments.
Adeyanju O. Muideen
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Typical errors in presenting concepts in textbooks for the first four grades of primary school [PDF]

Nastava i Vaspitanje, 2021
This paper offers a systematization of typical errors in presenting scientific concepts in textbooks for the first four grades of primary school. The subject of our analysis and systematization were presentations of concepts which deviate from or violate
Petrović Vesna, Antić Slobodanka
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Materializm Typu-B i Treść Pojęć Fenomenalnych (Type-B Materialism and the Content of Phenomenal Concepts)

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2019
According to type-B materialism, the corresponding phenomenal and physical concepts are distinct concepts of the same properties. This view is very controversial because of the fact that phenomenal concepts, along with physical concepts, refer non ...
Karol Polcyn
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