Dear all,
Next week's current projects,1.00-2.30 in the philosophy common room
is Raamy Majeed (Usyd)
Functionalism & Qualia Eliminativism
One of the main objections to a functionalist account of the
phenomenal character of experience or qualia is that functionalism
simply eliminates the way our experiences seem to us as opposed to
giving an account of it. The typical functionalist reply to fend off
this objection has been to restate their case again, albeit in more
detail. This strategy hasn’t proved as successful as functionalists
would like as skepticism about qualia-functionalism still looms. This
paper aims to defend functionalism by taking a different approach. It
attempts to tease out the intuitions that motivate the eliminativist
objection to functionalism and then determine whether these intuitions
themselves are justified. I argue that these intuitions remain
unjustified and therefore the eliminativist objection driven by these
intuitions carry no weight.
For further information see the current projects website at:
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home_Page.html
Dr. Kristie Miller
University of Sydney Research Fellow
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney Australia
Room 411, A 18
[email protected]
[email protected]
Ph: 02 93569663
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home_Page.html
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