According to Sparse views of perceptual content, the phenomenal character experience is exhausted by experiential presentation ‘low-level’ properties such as (in case vision) shapes, colors, and textures Whereas, according Rich can also sometimes involve experiencing ‘high-level’ natural kinds, artefactual causal relations, linguistic meanings, moral properties. An important dialectical tool in...

If phenomenal experience is a physical phenomenon, it must occur at some spatial and temporal location. Can consciousness be situated in such a strong sense? Although the importance of embodiment and situatedness is often mentioned, most neuroscientists and philosophers alike consider phenomenal experience as an outcome of neural activity. In this paper, the question I would raise is whether th...

Depressive symptoms are often found to be associated with the number of imagined positive and negative future episodes. Whereas most previous studies investigated the number of imagined events within a limited time period, our study focused on the phenomenal nature of future episodes and their relationships to depressive symptoms, as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Nonclinical ...