Shoemaker’s moderate qualia realism and the transparency of qualia
Disputatio May 1, 2007 Renée J. Smith
Abstract Qualia realists hold that experience’s phenomenal character is a non-representational property of experience, what they call qualia . Representationalists hold that phenomenal character is a representational property of experience — there are no qualia (in this particular sense of the word). The transparency of qualia to introspection would seem to count as reason for rejecting qualia...