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- Title
Explaining What?
- Authors
Irvine, Elizabeth
- Abstract
The Hard Problem is surrounded by a vast literature, to which it is increasingly hard to contribute to in any meaningful way. Accordingly, the strategy here is not to offer any new metaphysical or 'in principle' arguments in favour of the success of materialism, but to assume a Type Q(uinian) approach and look to contemporary consciousness science to see how the concept of consciousness fares there, and what kind of explanations we can hope to offer of it. It is suggested that while they will be materialist explanations, they will not be of the form that many scientists and philosophers would have us believe, but instead prompt a very different set of expectations and research projects.
- Subjects
EXPLANATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; MATERIALISM; ELIMINATIVISM; CONTEMPORARY (The English word); EXPECTATION (Philosophy)
- Publication
Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, 2017, Vol 36, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
0167-7411
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11245-014-9273-4