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Abstract In The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience, David Papineau offers some metaphysical reasons for rejecting representationalism. This paper overviews these reasons, arguing that while his arguments against versions representationalism succeed, there are phenomenal intentionalism escape criticisms. Still, once we consider the contents perceptual experiences, such as their perspectival conte...

Moore’s idea here is often summarized by saying that experience is transparent: when we try to examine the features of an experience, we end up ‘looking through’ the experience and examining features of what the experience is an experience of. Though there is widespread agreement that the transparency of experience shows something important about perception, there is little agreement about what...

often motivate their approach to perceptual experience by appealing in part to the claim that in cases of veridical perception the subject is directly in contact with the perceived object. When I perceive a table, for example, there is no table-like sense-impression that stands as an intermediary between the table and me. Nor am I related to the table as I am to a deer when I see its footprint ...

Variants of the slogan that a succession of experiences (in and of itself ) does not amount to an experience of succession are commonplace in the philosophical literature on temporal experience. I distinguish three quite different arguments that might be captured using this slogan: the individuation argument, the unity argument, and the causal argument. Versions of the unity and the causal argu...

Why Is a Representationalist Analysis Useful? In this chapter I will briefly sketch the outline of a representationalist theory of subjective experience. (See also Metzinger 1993, forthcoming). A representationalist theory is one that chooses to analyze its target properties – those aspects of the domain which eventually are to be explained – on a certain level of description: by describing con...

I argue for a manipulationist-mechanistic framework for content-NCC research in the case of visual consciousness (Bechtel 2008; Neisser 2012). Reference to mechanisms is common in the NCC research. Furthermore, recent developments in non-invasive brain stimulation techniques (NIBS) lend support to a manipulationist standpoint. The crucial question is to understand what is changed after manipula...

Abstract In this paper I give an overview of the recent developments in phenomenalism – intentionalism debate and try to show that proposed solutions neither sides are satisfying. The claims arguments two parties rather vague attribute intentional phenomenal properties either a too weak or strong relationship: sense they establish only mere coexistence, some priori conceptual connection propert...

Advocates of interactionism in the ethical criticism art argue that value impacts aesthetic value. The debate is concerned with “the intrinsic question”: question whether flaws/merits artworks’ manifested attitudes affect their (Gaut 2007: 9). This paper argues assumption artworks have problematic at least regards to a significant subset works: fictional artworks. I that, insofar as emerges onl...