Russellian Representationalism and the Stygian Hues
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Abstract Representationalism is today the leading physicalist theory of phenomenal character perceptual experience. And Russellian representationalism, which identifies contents with extensions, iteration that theory. If there exist phenomenally distinct experiences as impossible, then these would prima facie serve counterexamples to In order they definitively counterexamples, it needs be no plausible account on decompose into constituent elements each unproblematic from perspective The contention this paper stygian color , afterimage-experiences maximally dark, hued surfaces, Churchland (Churchland, Philosophical Psychology 18:527–560, 2005) representationalism.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Erkenntnis
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0165-0106', '1572-8420']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00555-5