Conscious Experiences as Ultimate Seemings: Renewing the Phenomenal Concept Strategy [Special Issue]
Issue: Issue 02 • Author/s: François Kammerer
Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of mind
The Phenomenal Concept Strategy is a popular strategy used to support physicalism in the realm of conscious experience. This Strategy accounts for dualist intuitions but uses the ways in which we think about our experiences to explain these intuitions in a physicalist framework, without any appeal to ontological dualism. In this paper, I will raise two issues related to the currently available versions of the Phenomenal Concept Strategy. First, most of the theories belonging to the Phenomenal Concept Strategy posit that phenomenal concepts are exceptional and sui generis concepts, and…