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Hoerl, Christoph (2015) Writing on the page of consciousness. Procceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 115 (3). pp. 187-209. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9264.2015.00391.x ISSN 0066-7374.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2015.00391.x
Abstract
I identify one particular strand of thought in Thomas Nagel’s ‘What is it like to be a bat?’ that I think has helped shape a certain conception of perceptual consciousness that is still prevalent in the literature. On this conception, perceptual consciousness is to be explained in terms of a special class of properties experiences themselves exhibit. I also argue that this conception is in fact in conflict with one of the key ideas that supposedly animates Nagel’s argument in ‘What is it like to be a bat?’, which is the idea of an intimate connection between the idea of consciousness and that of a point of view.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Consciousness | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Procceedings of the Aristotelian Society | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0066-7374 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2015 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 115 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 13 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 187-209 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-9264.2015.00391.x | ||||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 December 2015 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 December 2017 | ||||||||
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