PANIC theory and the prospects for a representational theory of phenomenal consciousness
Philosophical Psychology 15 (1):55-64 (2002)
| Abstract | Michael Tye has recently argued that the phenomenal character of conscious experiences is "one and the same as" (1) Poised (2) Abstract (3) Non-conceptual (4) Intentional Content (PANIC). Tye argues extensively that PANIC Theory accounts for differences in phenomenal character in representational terms. But another task of a theory of phenomenal consciousness is to account for the difference between those mental states that have phenomenal character at all and those that do not. By going through each of the four qualifiers of PANIC, we argue that PANIC Theory fails to account for this difference in genuinely representational terms. We suggest, furthermore, that the reasons it fails are likely to be endemic to all representational theories of phenomenal consciousness | |||||||||
| Keywords | Consciousness Content Experience Metaphysics Psychology Representation Tye, M | |||||||||
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