Explaining the Qualitative Dimension of Consciousness: Prescission Instead of Reification
Dialogue March 1, 2009 Marc Champagne 5 citations
ABSTRACT: This paper suggests that it is largely a want of notional distinctions which fosters the “explanatory gap” that has beset the study of consciousness since T. Nagel’s revival of the topic. Modifying Ned Block’s controversial claim that we should countenance a “phenomenal-consciousness” which exists in its own right, we argue that there is a way to recuperate the intuitions he appeals...