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Nathaniel F. Barrett

5 papers in the library · 3 citations · publishing 2009-2022

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Facing Up to the Problem of Affect

Journal of Consciousness Studies December 1, 2022 Nathaniel F. Barrett

When examined closely, our experience of affect presents a special challenge: it seems that there is no common quality that marks the pleasantness of conscious states and feelings. The implications of this finding have been debated by philosophers and psychologists for more than a century, and yet the peculiar phenomenology of affect is rarely discussed within consciousness studies. The purpose...

Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind

American Journal of Theology & Philosophy May 1, 2011 Nathaniel F. Barrett 2 citations

Book Review| May 01 2011 Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind, Michel Weber and Anderson Weekes. Nathaniel F. Barrett Nathaniel F. Barrett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Journal of Theology & Philosophy (2011) 32 (2):...

The Perspectivity of Feeling

chromatikon 2010 Nathaniel F. Barrett, Les Éditions Chromatika

For mainstream analytic philosophy of mind, the explanatory gap between first- and third-person accounts of consciousness derives from the inaccessibility of special, experiential properties of conscious minds. Within this framework, panpsychism is simply the claim that these special properties are everywhere. In contrast, process panpsychism understands the explanatory gap in terms of the...

The Perspectivity of Feeling: Process Panpsychism and the Explanatory Gap

Process Studies October 1, 2009 Nathaniel F. Barrett

Abstract For mainstream analytic philosophy of mind, the exphnatory gap between first- and third-person accounts of consciousness derives from the inaccessibility of special, "experiential" properties of conscious minds. Within this framework, panpsychism is simply the claim that these special properties are everywhere. In contrast, process panpsychism understands the explanatory gap in terms...