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Michael Tye, Consciousness Revisited: Materialism Without Phenomenal Concepts

Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009, xiv+229, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-262-01273-7

Author: David Cole

Published in: Minds and Machines | Issue 1/2011

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Philosophers raise a dust and then complain that they cannot see—so groused Irish philosopher George Berkeley. He was complaining about the problems of starting with the phenomenal mental representations (“ideas”) of our conscious experience and trying to infer and explain the material world. The dust has not settled. But now philosophers start with the world and wonder how conscious experience can be explained. The main problem is trying to provide a physical account of sensations (a.k.a. qualia, or phenomenal states) such as pain or vivid red. There appears to be a large and possibly unbridgeable gap between neural activity and such subjective conscious states. The gap is highlighted by thought experiments such as the Inverted Spectrum, Qualia-less “Zombies”, and Mary the talented neurophysiologist who nevertheless learns something new when she experiences color for the first time. …

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Cole, D. (2004). Inverted spectrum arguments. http://www.d.umn.edu/~dcole/inverted_spectrum.htm

Fodor, J. (2009). It ain’t in the head, review of Tye Consciousness revisited in Times literary supplement, October 16, 2009. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6878087.ece

Tye, M. (2009). Qualia, The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, Summer 2009 edition. In: E. N. Zalta (ed.). http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2009/entries/qualia

Title: Michael Tye, Consciousness Revisited: Materialism Without Phenomenal Concepts
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009, xiv+229, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-262-01273-7
Author: David Cole
Publication date: 01-02-2011
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Minds and Machines / Issue 1/2011
Print ISSN: 0924-6495
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8641
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-011-9225-3

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