Why should our mind reading abilities be involved in the explanation of phenomenal consciousness?

Autores
Perez, Diana Ines
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
inglés
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artículo
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versión publicada
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In this paper I consider recent discussions within the representationalist theories of phenomenal consciousness, in particular, the discussions between first order representationalism (FOR) and higher order representationalism (HOR). I aim to show that either there is only a terminological dispute between them or, if the discussion is not simply terminological, then HOR is based on a misunderstanding of the phenomena that a theory of phenomenal consciousness should explain. First, I argue that we can defend first order representationalism from Carruthers' attacks and ignore higher order thoughts in our account of phenomenal consciousness. Then I offer a diagnostic of Carruthers' misunderstanding. In the last section I consider further reasons to include mindreading abilities in an explanation of phenomenal consciousness.
En este trabajo, considero las discusiones recientes dentro de las teorías representacionalistas de la conciencia fenoménica, en particular las discusiones entre el representacionalismo de primer orden (FOR) y el representacionalismo de orden superior (HOR). Mi objetivo es mostrar que, o bien hay sólo una diferencia terminológica entre ellos, o bien si la discusión no es simplemente terminológica, entonces HOR está basada en una mala comprensión del fenómeno que una teoría de la conciencia fenoménica debe explicar. En primer lugar, argumento que se puede defender al FOR de los ataques de Carruthers e ignorar los pensamientos de orden superior en nuestra explicación de la conciencia fenoménica. Luego ofrezco un diagnóstico de la incomprensión de Carruthers. En la última sección, considero razones adicionales para incluir a las habilidades mentalistas en una explicación de la conciencia fenoménica.
Fil: Perez, Diana Ines. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico; Argentina
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Representationalism
High-order theories of consciousness
Mind-reading abilities
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spelling Why should our mind reading abilities be involved in the explanation of phenomenal consciousness?Perez, Diana InesRepresentationalismHigh-order theories of consciousnessMind-reading abilitieshttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6In this paper I consider recent discussions within the representationalist theories of phenomenal consciousness, in particular, the discussions between first order representationalism (FOR) and higher order representationalism (HOR). I aim to show that either there is only a terminological dispute between them or, if the discussion is not simply terminological, then HOR is based on a misunderstanding of the phenomena that a theory of phenomenal consciousness should explain. First, I argue that we can defend first order representationalism from Carruthers' attacks and ignore higher order thoughts in our account of phenomenal consciousness. Then I offer a diagnostic of Carruthers' misunderstanding. In the last section I consider further reasons to include mindreading abilities in an explanation of phenomenal consciousness.En este trabajo, considero las discusiones recientes dentro de las teorías representacionalistas de la conciencia fenoménica, en particular las discusiones entre el representacionalismo de primer orden (FOR) y el representacionalismo de orden superior (HOR). Mi objetivo es mostrar que, o bien hay sólo una diferencia terminológica entre ellos, o bien si la discusión no es simplemente terminológica, entonces HOR está basada en una mala comprensión del fenómeno que una teoría de la conciencia fenoménica debe explicar. En primer lugar, argumento que se puede defender al FOR de los ataques de Carruthers e ignorar los pensamientos de orden superior en nuestra explicación de la conciencia fenoménica. Luego ofrezco un diagnóstico de la incomprensión de Carruthers. En la última sección, considero razones adicionales para incluir a las habilidades mentalistas en una explicación de la conciencia fenoménica.Fil: Perez, Diana Ines. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico; ArgentinaSociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico2008-05info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/282431Perez, Diana Ines; Why should our mind reading abilities be involved in the explanation of phenomenal consciousness?; Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico; Análisis Filosófico; 28; 1; 5-2008; 35-480326-1301CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1851-96362008000100003&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2026-03-11T12:11:49Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/282431instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982026-03-11 12:11:49.654CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
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title Why should our mind reading abilities be involved in the explanation of phenomenal consciousness?
spellingShingle Why should our mind reading abilities be involved in the explanation of phenomenal consciousness?
Perez, Diana Ines
Representationalism
High-order theories of consciousness
Mind-reading abilities
title_short Why should our mind reading abilities be involved in the explanation of phenomenal consciousness?
title_full Why should our mind reading abilities be involved in the explanation of phenomenal consciousness?
title_fullStr Why should our mind reading abilities be involved in the explanation of phenomenal consciousness?
title_full_unstemmed Why should our mind reading abilities be involved in the explanation of phenomenal consciousness?
title_sort Why should our mind reading abilities be involved in the explanation of phenomenal consciousness?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Perez, Diana Ines
author Perez, Diana Ines
author_facet Perez, Diana Ines
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Representationalism
High-order theories of consciousness
Mind-reading abilities
topic Representationalism
High-order theories of consciousness
Mind-reading abilities
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv In this paper I consider recent discussions within the representationalist theories of phenomenal consciousness, in particular, the discussions between first order representationalism (FOR) and higher order representationalism (HOR). I aim to show that either there is only a terminological dispute between them or, if the discussion is not simply terminological, then HOR is based on a misunderstanding of the phenomena that a theory of phenomenal consciousness should explain. First, I argue that we can defend first order representationalism from Carruthers' attacks and ignore higher order thoughts in our account of phenomenal consciousness. Then I offer a diagnostic of Carruthers' misunderstanding. In the last section I consider further reasons to include mindreading abilities in an explanation of phenomenal consciousness.
En este trabajo, considero las discusiones recientes dentro de las teorías representacionalistas de la conciencia fenoménica, en particular las discusiones entre el representacionalismo de primer orden (FOR) y el representacionalismo de orden superior (HOR). Mi objetivo es mostrar que, o bien hay sólo una diferencia terminológica entre ellos, o bien si la discusión no es simplemente terminológica, entonces HOR está basada en una mala comprensión del fenómeno que una teoría de la conciencia fenoménica debe explicar. En primer lugar, argumento que se puede defender al FOR de los ataques de Carruthers e ignorar los pensamientos de orden superior en nuestra explicación de la conciencia fenoménica. Luego ofrezco un diagnóstico de la incomprensión de Carruthers. En la última sección, considero razones adicionales para incluir a las habilidades mentalistas en una explicación de la conciencia fenoménica.
Fil: Perez, Diana Ines. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico; Argentina
description In this paper I consider recent discussions within the representationalist theories of phenomenal consciousness, in particular, the discussions between first order representationalism (FOR) and higher order representationalism (HOR). I aim to show that either there is only a terminological dispute between them or, if the discussion is not simply terminological, then HOR is based on a misunderstanding of the phenomena that a theory of phenomenal consciousness should explain. First, I argue that we can defend first order representationalism from Carruthers' attacks and ignore higher order thoughts in our account of phenomenal consciousness. Then I offer a diagnostic of Carruthers' misunderstanding. In the last section I consider further reasons to include mindreading abilities in an explanation of phenomenal consciousness.
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