Consciousness, concepts and content

dc.contributor.advisorCarruthers, Peteren_US
dc.contributor.authorVeillet, Benedicteen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPhilosophyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-11T05:51:45Z
dc.date.available2008-10-11T05:51:45Z
dc.date.issued2008-08-04en_US
dc.description.abstractConcepts figure prominently in the defense and elaboration of representational accounts of phenomenal consciousness. Indeed, any adequate defense of (reductive) representationalism will require an appeal to so-called phenomenal concepts to deflect a group of related anti-physicalist (and hence anti-representationalist) arguments. What's more, an elaboration of representationalism requires a detailed account of the representational content of phenomenally conscious experience. The goal of this dissertation is to contribute to the defense and elaboration of representationalism as it relates to concepts, first with a defense of demonstrative/recognitional accounts of phenomenal concepts (and a defense of the more general physicalist strategy in which they figure); and second, with the development of a partially conceptual account of perceptual experience.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8571
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhilosophyen_US
dc.titleConsciousness, concepts and contenten_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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