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230On the persistence of phenomenologyIn Thomas Metzinger (ed.), Conscious Experience, Ferdinand Schoningh. 1995.In Thomas Metzinger, Conscious Experience, Schoningh Verlag. 1995. [ online ]
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11518 From the Looks of Things: The Explanatory Failure of RepresentationalismIn Edmond L. Wright (ed.), The Case for Qualia, Mit Press. pp. 325. 2008.Representationalist solutions to the qualia problem are motivated by two fundamental ideas: first, that having an experience consists in tokening a mental representation1; second, that all one is aware of in having an experience is the intentional content of that representation. In particular, one is not aware of any intrinsic features of the representational vehicle itself. For example, when you visually experience a red object, you are aware only of the redness of the object, not any redness o…Read more
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250Borderline cases and bivalencePhilosophical Review 114 (1): 1-31. 2005.It is generally agreed that vague predicates like ‘red’, ‘rich’, ‘tall’, and ‘bald’, have borderline cases of application. For instance, a cloth patch whose color lies midway between a definite red and a definite orange is a borderline case for ‘red’, and an American man five feet eleven inches in height is (arguably) a borderline case for ‘tall’. The proper analysis of borderline cases is a matter of dispute, but most theorists of vagueness agree at least in the thought that borderline cases fo…Read more
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34Deeper into Pictures: An Essay on Pictorial Representation (review)Philosophical Review 98 (4): 576. 1989.
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98Unruly Words: A Study of Vague LanguageOup Usa. 2013.In Unruly Words, Diana Raffman advances a new theory of vagueness which, unlike previous accounts, is genuinely semantic while preserving bivalence. According to this new approach, called the multiple range theory, vagueness consists essentially in a term's being applicable in multiple arbitrarily different, but equally competent, ways, even when contextual factors are fixed.
Yale University
PhD
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |