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


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Article
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Authors
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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Keywords
powerful qualities, phenomenal concepts, new challenge
Journal Title
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
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Journal ISSN
0004-8402
1471-6828
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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Sponsorship
This work was supported by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship [ECF-2015-088], provided by The Leverhulme Trust and The Isaac Newton Trust.