What are debates about qualia really about?

• Autores: Jeff Speaks
• Localización: Philosophical Studies, ISSN-e 1573-0883, Vol. 170, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 59-84
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • What�s really at issue in the debate between the transparency theorist and the qualia realist? To answer this question it will be useful to start off with Tye�s clear and, I think, representative ways of defining these views.

    What is qualia realism? Tye glosses the view as the claim that �Experiences have intrinsic features that are non-intentional and of which we can be directly aware via introspection.� Tye (2013, p. 4). Unless otherwise noted, all references to Tye�s work in what follows are to this paper.

    That is:

    Qualia Realism: There are features which:

    1.are features of experiences;

    2.are intrinsic properties of experiences;

    3.are non-intentional;

    4.are such that we can be directly aware of them via introspection.

    He also suggests that at least many qualia realists will hold that �the phenomenal character of an experience is one and the same as the cluster of such intrinsic features.� It will be useful have a label for this stronger view.