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79Are Qualia Just Representations? A Critical Notice of Michael Tye's Ten Problems of ConsciousnessMind and Language 12 (1): 101-113. 1997.
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68Qualia: Intrinsic, relational, or what?In Thomas Metzinger (ed.), Conscious Experience, Ferdinand Schoningh. pp. 277--292. 1995.
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64Books reviewed in this article: José Luis Bermú dez, The Paradox of Self‐Conciousness Lawrence Weiskrantz, Conciousness Lost and Found: A Neuropsychological Exploration.
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57Thoughts on sensory representation: A commentary on Austen Clark's a theory of sentiencePhilosophical Psychology 17 (4): 541-551. 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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51Raw FeelingPhilosophical Review 105 (1): 94. 1996.Kirk’s aim in this book is to bridge what he calls “the intelligibility gap,” expressed in the question, “How could complex patterns of neural firing amount to this?”. He defends a position that he describes as “broadly functionalist,” which consists of several theses. I will briefly review them.
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49Phenomenal access: A moving targetBehavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (2): 261-261. 1995.Basically agreeing with Block regarding the need for a distinction between P- and A-consciousness, I characterize the problem somewhat diflerently, relating it more directly to the explanatory gap. I also speculate on the relation between the two forms of consciousness, arguing that some notion of access is essentially involved in phenomenal experience.
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46Two kinds of accessBehavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (5-6): 514-515. 2007.I explore the implications of recognizing two forms of access that might be constitutively related to phenomenal consciousness. I argue, in support of Block, that we don't have good reason to think that the link to reporting mechanisms is the kind of access that distinguishes an experience from a mere state
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40Anti-materialist arguments and influential repliesIn Max Velmans & Susan Schneider (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, Blackwell. pp. 371--380. 2007.
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39The nature of psychological explanation by Robert Cummins: A critical noticePhilosophical Review 96 (2): 249-274. 1987.
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31Explanatory GapIn Robert A. Wilson & Frank C. Keil (eds.), MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, Mit Press. pp. 304-305. 1999.
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29The Metaphysics and Epistemology of AcquaintanceProtoSociology 38 15-34. 2021.Phenomenal consciousness comprises both qualitative character and subjectivity. The former provides the proprietary contents of conscious experiences – determining what they are like – and the latter is that feature that renders those contents “for the subject”, so there is something it is like at all. I have developed a theory of consciousness as “acquaintance” which I dub the “Cartesian Theater” model, on which there is a fundamental psycho-physical law that takes the output of cognitive and p…Read more