QUALIA UND PHYSIKALISMUS |
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Authors: | JÜRGEN SCHRÖDER |
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Institution: | (1) Grünewaldstr. 12, 69126 D-Heidelberg |
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Abstract: | Qualia and Physicalism. It is assumed that the following three relations exhaust the possibilities for a physicalist account
of qualia: 1. determination, 2. identity, 3. realization. The first relation is immediately rejected because it does not exclude
property dualism. The second faces the problem that it is probably impossible to discriminate empirically between the identity
thesis and the epiphenomenalist position. The third cannot handle qualia adequately, for qualia are not functional properties
and the realization relation is only plausible as a relation between physical realizers and functional properties. Finally,
if one attempts to replace multiple realization by multiple identities it is shown that the notion of multiple property identities
is unintelligible. The upshot is that if these three relations exhaust the possibilities of a physicalist construal of qualia
then physicalism is wrong.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | qualia physicalism property identity epiphenomenalism |
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