The Zenith of Yukihiro Nobuhara's Conceptual Thinking
Akira Haji
Kagaku tetsugaku 2008 DOI: 10.4216/jpssj.41.2_89 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Review Peer reviewed |
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| Key findings | Argues that Nobuhara's book offers a rigorous naturalistic analysis of qualia by treating bodily sensations as perceptions and prioritizing linguistic content, but contends that a fuller naturalization of mind requires grounding in neurological research that separates sensory from affective phenomena. |
Abstract
The present review concerns Yukihiro Nobuhara's masterpiece, Philosophy of Consciousness: Introduction to the Study of Qualia. This book should be highly acclaimed due to the fact that from an intentional / representational point of view, a modern orthodox naturalistic standpoint, the problems of qualia are examined conceptually by assimilating bodily sensations to perception, as well as that the author pursues these problems by suggesting the possibility of a strategy in which we assign explanatory priority to linguistic content and explain how mental content results from that. However, I believe that philosophy of mind should be naturalized and studied in greater detail on the basis of the results of neurological studies by distinguishing between sensory and affective phenomena.