Phenomenal Feel as Process1 | Zendy

Paul L.A. | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Premium

Phenomenal Feel as Process1

Author(s) -

Paul L.A.

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

philosophical issues

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.638

H-Index - 18

eISSN - 1758-2237

pISSN - 1533-6077

DOI - 10.1111/phis.12095

Subject(s) - physicalism , ontology , epistemology , common ground , process (computing) , psychology , philosophy , character (mathematics) , social psychology , metaphysics , computer science , geometry , mathematics , operating system

Phenomenal character (or feel) is the what‐it's‐likeness of subjective experience. I develop an ontology of phenomenal feel as process. My being in some phenomenal state R is the process of my instantiating R ’s neurological correlate. The ontology explains why we have asymmetric epistemic access to phenomenal characters: the ontological ground for the subjective or first‐personal stance is different from the ontological ground for the objective or third‐personal stance. I end by situating my account in debates about physicalism.

This content is not available in your region!

Continue researching here.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research