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Powerful Qualities, Phenomenal Concepts, and the New Challenge to Physicalism

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Taylor, H 

Abstract

Defenders of the phenomenal concept strategy have to explain how both physical and phenomenal concepts provide a substantive grasp on the nature of their referents, whilst referring to the very same experience. This is the ‘new challenge’ to physicalism. In this paper, I argue that if the physicalist adopts the powerful qualities ontology of properties then a new and powerful version of the phenomenal concept strategy can be developed, which answers the new challenge.

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powerful qualities, phenomenal concepts, new challenge

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Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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0004-8402
1471-6828

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Taylor & Francis
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This work was supported by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship [ECF-2015-088], provided by The Leverhulme Trust and The Isaac Newton Trust.