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Consciousness and Qualia.
Title:
Consciousness and Qualia.
Author:
Stubenberg, Leopold.
ISBN:
9789027283498
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (377 pages)
Series:
Advances in Consciousness Research ; v.5

Advances in Consciousness Research
Contents:
CONSCIOUSNESS AND QUALIA -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- 1.1 Philosophy or Science -- 1.2 Outline One: Some Key Ideas -- 1.3 Outline Two: Chapter Summaries -- 1.4 Caveats -- CHAPTER TWO. Making our Ideas Clear: Consciousness and Qualia -- 2.1 The Thesis -- 2.2 Clarifying the Thesis -- 2.2.1 Qualitative Consciousness -- 2.2.2 An Apology for Qualia -- 2.2.2.1 The Datum -- 2.2.2.2 Why the Datum Is Obvious -- 2.2.2.3 The Neutrality Thesis -- 2.2.2.4 Qualia and Sense-Data -- 2.2.2.5 The Qualia Quiners -- 2.2.2.6 Why the Datum Is Important -- 2.2.2.7 Why the Datum Is Baffling -- 2.2.2.8 Deflating the Bafflement -- 2.2.2.9 Background Materialism -- 2.3 Two Problems: The Nature-problem and the Having-problem -- 2.4 Summary -- CHAPTER THREE. On Method: The First-Person Perspective -- 3.1 The Principle of Phenomenological Adequacy -- 3.2 The Transformation of Consciousness Studies -- 3.3 The Attack on the First-Person Perspective -- 3.3.1 The Charge of Obscurantism and the Love of Mystery -- 3.3.1.1 The First-Person Perspective and anti-Materialism -- 3.3.1.2 The First-Person Perspective and Anti-Scientism -- 3.3.2 The Method of Heterophenomenology -- 3.3.2.1 What Is Heterophenomenology -- 3.3.2.2 Changing the Explanandum -- 3.3.2.3 Dennett's Official Reply -- 3.3.2.4 Phenomenal Realism -- 3.4 The Scope and Limits of this Project -- 3.5 Summary -- CHAPTER FOUR. Higher-Order Representation and Introspection -- 4.1 HOR, HOP, and HOT: Terminology -- 4.2 Is HOR A Theory of Qualitative Consciousness? -- 4.2.1 The Independence of HOR and Qualitative Consciousness -- 4.2.2 Armstrong's Absentminded Driver and the Explanandum of HOR -- 4.2.2.1 Reflections on Armstrong's Driver -- 4.2.3 HOR and What It's Like.

4.3 Why Is HOR's Explanandum Elusive? -- 4.3.1 Qualia: Celluloid vs. the Silver Screen -- 4.3.1.1 Qualia and Secondary Qualities -- 4.3.1.2 The Reaction Criterion -- 4.3.2 Summary of the Analysis -- 4.4 HOR and Introspectionism -- 4.4.1 The Label 'Introspectionism ' -- 4.4.2 Inîrospectionism: A Unitary Phenomenon ? -- 4.4.3 Introspection: Perceptual or Purely Cognitive ? -- 4.4.4 Is there an Introspective Phenomenology? -- 4.4.5 Perception without Phenomenology ? -- 4.4.6 Narrowing the Gap between HOT and HOP -- 4.4. 7 Externalizing Qualia -- 4.4.8 Qualia: Mental Paint vs. Physical Paint -- 4.5 Summary -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Allure of Introspectionism -- 5.1 Explaining Consciousness through Introspection: Introspectionism -- 5.2 Why Introspectionism Seems Obvious -- 5.2.1 The Definitional Link -- 5.2.2 The Best-Explanation Connection -- 5.2.3 Consciousness and the Consciousness of Consciousness -- 5.2.4 Introspectionism's Insight -- 5.2.5 Preserving the Insight -- 5.3 The Epistemology of Consciousness and Introspection -- 5.3.1 Three Forms of Epistemic Access to Our Own Minds -- 5.3.2 The Transition to Introspectionism: The Epistemic Argument -- 5.3.2.1 Identity: Introspections are Qualitative Beliefs -- 5.3.2.2 Presupposition: Qualitative Beliefs Presuppose Introspections -- 5.4 Severing Consciousness from Introspection -- 5.5 The Introspective Access Assumption -- 5.6 Against the Three Epistemological Theses -- 5.7 The Special-Knowledge Thesis -- 5. 7.1 The Argument From Materialism -- 5. 7.2 The Argument from Conceptualization -- 5. 7.3 The Argument from Deviant Reasons -- 5.7.4 Assessment of the Special-Knowledge Thesis -- 5.8 The Fallible-Knowledge Thesis -- 5.9 The Belief Thesis -- 5.9.1 Detached Qualitative Beliefs -- 5.9.2 Detached Qualia -- 5.9.2.1 The First Appeal to Phenomenology -- 5.9.2.2 Simple Minds -- 5.10 Summary.

CHAPTER SIX. Oscar, the Unconscious Introspector: A Case Study -- 6.1 Pollock's Oscar as Imitation Man -- 6.2 Rational Functionalism and Consciousness -- 6.2.1 Linking Rationality and Consciousness -- 6.2.2 The Role of Consciousness in the Human Rational Architecture -- 6.3 How to Build Consciousness into Oscar -- 6.4 Doubting that Oscar Is Conscious -- 6.4.1 Perception without Sensation -- 6.4.2 The Lessons of Blindsight -- 6.4.3 Pollock's Analysis of Blindsight -- 6.4.4 Introspection and learning -- 6.4.5 The Capacities of Blindsighted Subjects -- 6.4.6 Blindsight and Learning: A Dilemma -- 6.4. 7 The Argument from Blindsight -- 6.4.8 An Objection to the Argument from Blindsight -- 6.4.9 Reply to the Objection -- 6.5 Should We Take the Possibility of Oscar's Blindsight Seriously? -- 6.5.1 Two Arguments for Taking Oscar's Blindsight Seriously -- 6.5.1.1 The Argument from Parsimony -- 6.5.1.2 The Argument from Mystery -- 6.5.2 An Objection: The Two Arguments Prove too Much -- 6.5.3 Two Arguments Against Taking Oscar's Blindsight Seriously -- 6.5.3.1 The Argument From Analogy -- 6.5.3.2 The (Thought) Experimental Solution: Trying on Oscar -- 6.6 Summary -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Relocating Qualia -- 7.1 Three (or Four) Ways of DeMenting Qualia -- 7.2 Denying Qualia -- 7.3 Wholehearted Relocation -- 7.3.1 The Expanding Sphere of Consciousness: The Inflation Problem -- 7.3.1.1 Rarefaction -- 7.4 Support for the Relocation Theses -- 7.4.1 The Second Appeal to Phenomenology -- 7.4.2 The Inconclusiveness of the Appeal to Phenomenology -- 7.4.3 No Mental Home for Qualia -- 7.5 Halfhearted Relocation: The Colored-Brain Thesis -- 7.5.1 Mental Representations Old and New -- 7.5.2 Qualia- "Nowhere to Be Found in the Head " -- 7.5.3 Exemplifying Qualia and Having Qualia -- 7.5.4 The Prospects of Halfhearted Relocation -- 7.6 The Price of Wholehearted Relocation.

7.6.1 Does Wholehearted Relocation support the Belief Thesis? -- 7.6.2 Does Wholehearted Relocation undermine the Belief Thesis? -- 7.6.3 Wholehearted Relocation and the Existence of Qualia -- 7.7 Summary -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Having Relocated Qualia -- 8.1 Complicating the Picture: Four Representation-Based Theories -- 8.2 Cell (1): Internal Qualia with HO Representation -- 8.2.1 The Problem of the Rock -- 8.2.2 Mediate and Immediate HO Thoughts -- 8.2.3 The Official Reply to the Rock -- 8.2.4 The Rock and Intrinsicalism -- 8.2.5 HOT: Analysis not Explanation -- 8.2.6 Assessing the Rock -- 8.3 Cell (2): Internal Qualia without HO Representation -- 8.4 Cell (3): External Qualia with HO Representation -- 8.4.1 Introspectionism and Relocation -- 8.4.2 The Inner Sense and the External World -- 8.5 Cell (4): External Qualia without HO Representation -- 8.5.1 Precursors: Naive Realism and Moore -- 8.5.2 Dretske's Representationalism -- 8.5.3 What Does Representationalism Explain ? -- 8.6 Summary -- 8.7 My Position: A Preview -- CHAPTER NINE. Denying Relocated Qualia -- 9.1 The Argument from Illusion and Nonexistent Qualia-Bearers -- 9.1.1 The Route to Nonexistent Qualia-Bearers -- 9.2 Problems With Intentional Objects -- 9.2.1 Intentional Objects à la (Early) Brentano -- 9.2.2 Intentional Objects à la Meinong -- 9.2.3 Intentional Objects and Possible World -- 9.2.3.1 Lewisian Realism -- 9.2.3.2 Ersatzism -- 9.2.4 How to Perceive Otherworldly Objects -- 9.2.5 Halfhearted Relocationism and the Problems of Illusion -- 9.3 The Argument from Atomism and Illusory Qualia -- 9.3.1 Direct Reductive Realism about Color -- 9.3.2 The Illusion of Concrete Secondary Quality: Armstrong's Account -- 9.3.3 Piercing the Illusion -- 9.3.4 The Nature of the Illusion -- 9.3.4.1 Seeming and Believing -- 9.3.4.2 Seeming and the Language of Thought: Lycan 's Way Out.

9.3.5 The Origin of the Illusion -- 9.3.5.1 The Gestalt Model -- 9.3.5.2 Resemblances and Intrinsic Natures -- 9.3.5.3 The Headless-Woman Illusion -- 9.3.5.4 Should We Trust the Impression of Simplicity? -- 9.3.5.5 'Illusion' of Concrete Secondary Quality? -- 9.3.6 The Depth of the Illusion -- 9.3.6.1 First Interpretation: Total Illusion -- 9.3.6.2 Second Interpretation: Partial Illusion -- 9.3.6.3 Third Interpretation: Minimal Illusion -- 9.3. 7 DIRE Realism and Illusory Colors -- 9.4 Summary -- CHAPTER TEN. Consciousness: The Having of Qualia -- 10.1 Learning from Mistakes -- 10.2 Isolating Two Pernicious Assumptions -- 10.3 Adverbialism -- 10.3.1 Problems with Adverbialism -- 10.3.2 The Reappearance of the Two Pernicious Assumptions -- 10.3.3 The Phenomenal Adequacy of Adverbialism -- 10.4 Monism -- 10.5 Monism and the Having-Problem -- 10.5.1 The Neutral Theory of Experience -- 10.5.2 The Bundle Theory of the Self -- 10.5.3 The Phenomenal Adequacy of Monism -- 10.5.4 Challenging the Monistic Account of Having -- 10.5.5 Challenge One: Monism Is Unilluminating -- 10.5.6 Challenge Two: Monism Entails Infallibilism -- 10.5.6.1 The Noncognitive Nature of Monism -- 10.5.7 Challenge Three: Monism Entails Nonnaturalism -- 10.6 Monism and the Nature-Problem -- 10.6.1 The Bundle Theory of Percepts -- 10.6.2 The Physical Location of Percepts -- 10.6.2.1 The Colored-Brain Problem -- 10.6.3 The Metaphysical Location of Percepts -- 10.6.3.1 The Other Identity Theory -- 10.6.3.2 Matter as All Gap: Structural Realism -- 10.6.3.3 Filling the Gap: Qualia as the Basic Reality -- 10.6.3.4 Events, Matter, and Grain -- 10.6.4 The Threat of Panpsychism -- 10.7 Summary -- Notes -- References -- Detailed Table of Contents -- Index.
Abstract:
This is a philosophical study of qualitative consciousness, characteristic examples of which are pains, experienced colors, sounds, etc. Consciousness is analyzed as the having of qualia. Phenomenal properties or qualia are problematical because they lack appropriate bearers. The relation of having is problematical because none of the typical candidates for this relation - introspection, inner monitoring, higher level thoughts - is capable of explaining what it looks like to have a quale . The qualia problem is solved by introducing a bundle theory of phenomenal objects. Phenomenal objects are bundles of qualia. Thus there is no need for independent qualia bearers. The having problem is solved by introducing a bundle theory of the self. To have a quale is for it to be in the bundle one is. Thus no further relations are needed to explain how qualia are had. This study strives for phenomenological adequacy. Thus the first-person point of view dominates throughout. (Series A).
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