Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-m8s7h Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-19T04:23:36.137Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Sensory holism and functionalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Joseph Thomas Tolliver
Joseph Thomas Tolliver
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 tolliver@u.arizona.edu w3.arizona.edu/~phil/faculty.html
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

I defend the possibility of a functional account of the intrinsic qualities of sensory experience against the claim that functional characterization can only describe such qualities to the level of isomorphism of relational structures on those qualities. A form sensory holism might be true concerning the phenomenal, and this holism would account for some antifunctionalist intuition evoked by inverted spectrum and absent qualia arguments. Sensory holism is compatible with the correctness of functionalism about the phenomenal.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 972 - 973
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)