Seeing through Transparency
July 7, 2023 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198879466.003.0010 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that the proliferation of distinct notions and theses of transparency in philosophy of mind has produced conceptual confusion, and proposes that analyzing the relations among these theses reveals a unitary multidimensional logical space for locating existing and possible views. |
Abstract
Abstract Since the 1990s the so-called transparency of experience has played a crucial role in core debates in philosophy of mind. However, recent developments in the literature have made transparency itself quite opaque. The very idea of transparent experience has become quite fuzzy, due to the articulation of many different notions of transparency and transparency theses. Absent a unified logical space where these notions and theses can be mapped and confronted, we are left with an overall impression of conceptual chaos. This is a problem, given the constant and ubiquitous references to transparency in the literature and its prominent position in the contemporary philosophy of mind. My goal in this chapter is to restore clarity through proper analysis of the mutual relations between the different transparency theses. This allows me to uncover a unitary multidimensional logical space where existing (as well as possible) views can be properly singled out and located.
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