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John Hawthorne

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Direct Reference and Dancing Qualia

Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge 2007 John Hawthorne 10 citations

AbstractThis chapter argues that there is a tension in the semantic views held by certain antiphysicalists. These philosophers accept Fregean arguments against direct-reference theories of ordinary proper names but maintain that phenomenal concepts refer directly. Against this semantic package, it is argued that the thought experiments that motivate a sense-reference distinction for ordinary...