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Shop Shield is "a phenomenal concept," said Jay Foley, co-founder of the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group.
Stoljar (2005) calls this the "phenomenal concept strategy".
The phenomenal concept strategy is criticized by Prinz (2007), Chalmers (2007), Ball (2009), and Tye (2009).
To have the phenomenal concept of blueness is to be able to recognize experiences of blueness while having them.
Another sort of representation appealed to by some phenomenalists (e.g., Chalmers (2003), Block (2003)) is what Chalmers calls a "pure phenomenal concept".
This is why it is possible to have (like Mary) complete physical knowledge about e.g. phenomenal blueness (you know everything there is to know about phenomenal blueness under its physical conceptualization) without having a phenomenal concept of blueness and without knowing any of these facts under a phenomenal concept of blueness.
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According to the 'phenomenal concept strategy' (Stoljar 2005) there is really only a conceptual gap: phenomenal concepts have features which mislead us into supposing there is an ontological gap in addition to an epistemic one, when there isn't.
He also argues that phenomenal concepts are 'recognitional', in contrast to physical concepts, which are 'theoretical'theoretical
Phenomenal concepts figure also in responses to the Conceivability and Explanatory Gap arguments.
The differences between variants of the New Knowledge/Old Fact View concern the theoretical (physicalist) account of (a) phenomenal character, (b) phenomenal concepts of phenomenal characters and (c) the relation between phenomenal characters and the corresponding phenomenal concepts.
Alter and Walter 2007 is an excellent collection of essays on phenomenal concepts).
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