Approaching Subjectivity. On “The Dispute About Subjectivity: Interdisciplinary Perspective”

[Body and subjectivity: about anorexia nervosa].

To start with the clinical description of anorexia nervosa is indicative of the difficulty involved not only with regard to its etiology (whether it is an endocrine, neurological or psychological disorder) but also with regard to its diagnosis (whether or not it is a hysterical disorder, whether or not it is a disease as such) and with regard to its treatment (the stubbornness of the symptom). ...

On science and subjectivity

On Modal Subjectivity

Epistemic modals have long been observed to be ambiguous between a speaker-oriented interpretation (Lyon’s 1977 ‘subjective’ interpretation) and an interpretation that reflects general knowledge (the ‘objective’ interpretation). In recent work, Papafragou (2006) argues that subjectively interpreted epistemics are non-truth conditional, and that this results from them being indexical to the spea...

Unifying Subjectivity

Subjective behavior is essential for applications that must adapt their behavior to changing circumstances. Many different solutions have been proposed in the past, based, for example, on perspectives, roles, contextual layers, and “force trees”. Although these approaches are somehow equally expressive, each imposes a particular world view which may not be appropriate for all applications. We p...

The Neurophilosophy of Subjectivity

The so-called subjectivity of conscious experience is central to much recent work in the philosophy of mind. Subjectivity is the alleged property of consciousness whereby one can know what it is like to have certain conscious states only if one has undergone such states oneself. I review neurophilosophical work on consciousness and concepts pertinent to this claim and argue that subjectivity el...