2 papers in the library · publishing 2023-2026
Standpoints April 23, 2026 Martin Lipman
Abstract This chapter focuses on phenomenal consciousness. The starting assumption is Nagel’s observation that consciousness, in particular the phenomenal appearances that accompany conscious mental states, are only there from the perspective of the relevant subject and are somehow involved in the subject’s being a perspective on the world. While it’s common to understand the notion of there...
Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy November 17, 2023 Martin A. Lipman
The starting point of this paper is the thought that the phenomenal appearances that accompany mental states are somehow only there, or only real, from the standpoint of the subject of those mental states. The world differs across subjects in terms of which appearances obtain. Not only are subjects standpoints across which the world varies, subjects are standpoints that we can moreover ‘adopt’...