The Muslim Other stands outside the somatic norms of white Dutch society. Thinking through body as a phenomenal lived body, we explore ways which is (re)constructed embodied encounters and intersections sensoriality, corporeality, affectivity in urban Dutch. We identify how (1) (re)produced set multisensorial based on look, hearing, touch; (2) Othering intercorporeally practised; (3) affectivel...

A representationalist analysis of strong first-person phenomena is developed (Baker 1998), and it is argued that conscious, cognitive self-reference can be naturalized under this representationalist analysis. According to this view, the phenomenal first-person perspective is a condition of possibility for the emergence of a cognitive first-person perspective. Cognitive self-reference always is ...

The awareness of the phenomenal qualities of one's experiences can be considered as an instance of metacognition. Although some people take qualia (sensory qualities such as the redness of red) as salient features of phenomenal experience, others have expressed views that doubt or deny the central importance of qualia. How do such cognitive heterogeneities occur? What parameters influence them?...

There is almost unanimous consensus among the theorists of consciousness that the phenomenal character of a mental state cannot exist without consciousness. We argue for a reappraisal of this consensus. We distinguish two models of phenomenal consciousness: unitary and dual. Unitary model takes the production of a phenomenal quality and it's becoming conscious to be one and the same thing. The ...

Many ambiguous patterns elicit spontaneous alternations of phenomenal appearance. Attention is known to influence these phenomenal reversals, as do several other factors. We asked whether a shift of attention individually prompts each reversal of phenomenal appearance. By combining intermittent presentation with a proven method of attention control, we monitored phenomenal alternations in the c...

Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge is an edited volume of new essays relating to the debates around phenomenal experience in philosophy of mind. Alter and Walter provide an excellent introduction to the volume, producing a well edited collection of papers that represent some of the most interesting and cutting edge work in the field, and together provide a subtle and complex overview ...

This essay aims to expose the metaphysical underpinnings of enactivism. While enactivism relies heavily on rejecting traditional mind-body problem by excluding familiar thought experiments that favor phenomenal dualism, crucial point is overlooked instead brain-body problem, specifically interaction between brain and bodily limbs in their embodied activities perception cognition. If correct, di...