Phenomenal Qualities: Sense, Perception, and Consciousness by Paul Coates & Sam Coleman

Author:Paul Coates & Sam Coleman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978–0–19–871271–8
Published: 2016-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

(19) Compare the discussion in Lewis (2009) and Weatherson and Marshall (2013).

(20) The notion that higher-level properties can arise from pure relations between bare particulars is contentious; however, see Esfeld (2003) and Esfeld and Lam (2011).

(21) Langton (1998) and Lewis (2001).

(22) With the appropriate background learning and set, a subject may directly (and defeasibly) perceive such properties to be present, in spontaneously exercising the corresponding concepts. However—according to one well-established tradition—such scientific properties are not immediately present in experience in the manner that the sensible properties are. My awareness of redness is at a sensory level, and requires no prior learning, whereas I can only come to be aware of spectral reflectances cognitively, through empirical discovery.

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