PHENOMENAL HOLISM AND QUALIA CATEGORIES
Revista Română de Filosofie Analitică June 5, 2025 Mihai Alexandru Bîclea
Scientists have attempted to find consciousness and, more specifically, qualia in the physical world ever since philosophers such as Thomas Nagel (1974) or Frank Jackson (1986) have commented upon the elusive experiential properties of such mental states that are characterized by a specific “what’s it like”. One of the proposals to minimize the metaphysical and epistemological tension that...