Sensory Qualities
by
Austen Clark
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy
ISBN-10
0198236808
ISBN-13
9780198236801
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 10th, 1996
Print length
268 Pages
Weight
372 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 13.90 x 1.70 cms
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Austen Clark offers an original new approach to the apparently insoluble problem, much debated in contemporary philosophy, of explaining sensory qualities - how things look, feel, or seem to a perceiving subject. He argues that the methods of experimental psychology and psychophysiology can provide philosophically satisfactory explanations of some qualitative facts in non-qualitative terms.
Many philosophers doubt that one can provide any successful explanation of sensory qualities - of how things look, feel, or seem to a perceiving subject. To provide such an explanation, one would need to explain qualitative facts in non-qualitative terms. Attempts to construct such explanations have seemed, in principle, doomed.Austen Clark examines the strategy used in psychophysics, psychometrics, and sensory neurophysiology to explain qualitative facts. He argues that this strategy could succeed: its structure is sound, and it can answer the various philosophical objections lodged against it. On this basis Professor Clark presents an analysis of senosry qualities that offers the possibility of explaining at least some qualia, and he sketches how this scheme might eventually reduce to neurophysiology. If he is correct, we are not doomed to an eternity of mere acquaintance with our qualia.
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