The neurophilosophy of subjectivity

In John Bickle (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience. Oxford University Press (2009)
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Abstract

The so-called subjectivity of conscious experience is central to much recent work in the philosophy of mind. Subjectivity is the alleged property of consciousness whereby one can know what it is like to have certain conscious states only if one has undergone such states oneself. I review neurophilosophical work on consciousness and concepts pertinent to this claim and argue that subjectivity eliminativism is at least as well supported, if not more supported, than subjectivity reductionism

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