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Materialism, Functionalism and Supervenient Qualia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 April 2010
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Qualia are phenomenal properties of sensations and perceptual states: they are whatever it is that gives such states their “felt,” qualitative character. (In speaking of sensations, I speak of course not of mental objects or mental contents, but of mental events—of sensings, not sensa.)
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- Qualia and Materialism/Les Qualia et le matérialisme
- Information
- Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 32 , Issue 3: Philosophy of Mind , Summer 1993 , pp. 475 - 492
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- Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1993
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