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FUNCTIONALISM AND THE QUALIA WARS
Txapartegi, Ekai
Txapartegi, Ekai
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The debate concerning the reality of qualia has stagnated. The dominant functionalist approach to qualia concentrates largely on the filter-strategy as applied to color experiences. The filter-strategy takes color experiences as material-to-be-functionally-filtered under the assumption that qualia as such cannot be filtered. However, despite the speculative efforts made in this direction, the debate between phenomenalists and representationalists remains unresolved. The main idea of this paper is to show that the lack of success settling “the qualia war” has to be understood as a result of the mischaracterization of colors as a material-to-be-functionally-filtered.
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2006
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