Open AccessConstruction and Cognition
Author(s) -
Catherine Z. Elgin
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
theoria an international journal for theory history and foundations of science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2171-679X
pISSN - 0495-4548
DOI - 10.1387/theoria.439
Subject(s) - qualia , reductionism , epistemology , cognitive science , cognition , character (mathematics) , philosophy , psychology , consciousness , neuroscience , mathematics , geometry
The Structure of Appearance presents a phenomenalist system which constructs enduring visible objects out of qualia. Nevertheless Goodman does not espouse phenomenalism. Why not? In answering this question this paper explicates Goodman’s views about the nature and functions of constructional systems, the prospects of reductionism, and the character of epistemology
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