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Holism, functionalism and visual awarenessCommunication and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal 31 (1): 3-19. 1998.
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50Direct self-consciousness (review)Psycoloquy. 2000.One can distinguish the descriptive view of self-consciousness from the philosophical framework of the theory of nonconceptual content. Propositional attitudes can be ascribed without commitment to the existence of internal states that bear different species of content. The descriptive view can be coupled to this alternative view
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44An account of color without a subject?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (1): 42-43. 2003.While color realism is endorsed, Byrne & Hilbert's (B&H's) case for it stretches the notion of “physical property” beyond acceptable bounds. It is argued that a satisfactory account of color should do much more to respond to antirealist intuitions that flow from the specificity of color experience, and a pointer to an approach that does so is provided.
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22Two sciences of perception and visual art: editorial introduction to the Brussels PapersJournal of Consciousness Studies 7 (8-9): 8-9. 2000.Two kinds of vision science are distinguished: a representational versus a nonrepresentational one. Seeing in the former is conceived of as creating an internal replica of the external world, while in the latter seeing is taken to be a process of active engagement with the environment. The potential of each theory for elucidating artistic creation and aesthetic appreciation is considered, necessarily involving some comments on visual consciousness. This discussion is intended as a background aga…Read more
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5Quining kinds of content: The primacy of experienceJournal of Consciousness Studies 11 (1): 72-76. 2004.
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1Feelings and objectsIn Richard Menary (ed.), Radical Enactivism: Intentionality, Phenomenology and Narrative: Focus on the Philosophy of Daniel D. Hutto, John Benjamins. 2006.
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50Could dancing be coupled oscillation? – The interactive approach to linguistic communication and dynamical systems theoryBehavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (5): 634-635. 2002.Although we applaud the interactivist approach to language and communication taken in the target article, we notice that Shanker & King (S&K) give little attention to the theoretical frameworks developed by dynamical system theorists. We point out how the dynamical idea of causality, viewed as multidirectional across multiple scales of organization, could further strengthen the position taken in the target article.
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102Toward an Analytic Phenomenology: The Concepts of "Bodiliness" and "Grabbiness"In A. Carsetti (ed.), Seeing and Thinking. Reflections on Kanizsa's Studies in Visual Cognition, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2001.In this paper, we present an account of phenomenal con- sciousness. Phenomenal consciousness is experience, and the _problem _of phenomenal consciousness is to explain how physical processes
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1195Is Trilled Smell Possible? How the Structure of Olfaction Determines the Phenomenology of SmellJournal of Consciousness Studies 18 (11-12): 59-95. 2011.Smell 'sensations' are among the most mysterious of conscious experiences, and have been cited in defense of the thesis that the character of perceptual experience is independent of the physical events that seem to give rise to it. Here we review the scientific literature on olfaction, and we argue that olfaction has a distinctive profile in relation to the other modalities, on four counts: in the physical nature of the stimulus, in the sensorimotor interactions that characterize its use, in the…Read more
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53In this paper, we present an account of phenomenal consciousness. Phenomenal consciousness is experience, and the problem of phenomenal consciousness is to explain how physical processes?behavioral, neural, computational?can produce experience. Numerous thinkers have argued that phenomenal consciousness cannot be explained in functional, neural or information-processing terms (e.g. Block 1990, 1994; Chalmers 1996). Different arguments have been put forward. For example, it has been argued that t…Read more
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Is bewustzijn louter representatie?Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 2 157-159. 2005.
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24Editorial introductionSynthese 129 (1): 1-2. 2001.Music raises many problems for those who would understand it more deeply. It is rooted in time, yet timeless. It is pure form, yet conveys emotion. It is written, but performed, interpreted, improvised, transcribed, recorded, sampled, remixed, revised, rebroadcast, reinterpreted, and more. Music can be studied by philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, mathematicians, biologists, computer scientists, neuro-scientists, critics, politicians, promoters, and of course musicians. Moreover, no sing…Read more
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