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- Title
A History of Qualia.
- Authors
Dennett, Daniel C.
- Abstract
The philosophers' concept of qualia is an artifact of bad theorizing, and in particular, of failing to appreciate the distinction between the intentional object of a belief (for instance) and the cause(s) of that belief. Qualia, like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, have a history but that does not make them real. The cause of a hallucination, for instance, may not resemble the intentional object hallucinated at all, and the representation in the brain is not rendered in special subjective properties (qualia).
- Subjects
SANTA Claus; PHILOSOPHERS; HISTORY; ILLUSION (Philosophy); EASTER
- Publication
Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, 2020, Vol 39, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0167-7411
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11245-017-9508-2