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Sydne Shoemaker

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Churchland on Reduction, Qualia, and Introspection

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984 Sydne Shoemaker

Churchland (1985) is much struck with the possibility that we might learn to make introspective reports in “the conceptual framework of a matured neuroscience”. He thinks that this would yield “a quantum leap in self-apprehension”. And he apparently thinks that the possibility of this strengthens the case for reductionism. I will not question the claim that we might learn to make in a...