NDLI: Rule-Following and Consciousness: Old Problem or New?

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Author	Miller, Alexander Saboohi, Ali
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	It has recently been claimed that there is a “new hard problem” for physicalism. The new hard problem, according to Goff (Philosophical Studies, 160, 223–235, 2012), is based on “semantic phenomenology”, the view that conscious perceptual experience represents linguistic expressions as having determinate meanings. Goff argues that Kripke’s rule-following argument demonstrates that it is particularly difficult for a physicalist to account for semantic phenomenology. In this paper, we argue that (a) Goff’s discussion of semantic phenomenology fails to uncover a “new” hard problem for physicalism and (b) there is a hard problem—which Goff misses—facing philosophers who accept the reality of semantic phenomenology, but that this is as much a problem for non-reductionists about meaning as it is for physicalists. All we have been given is a familiar hard problem about rule-following, not a new hard problem about consciousness.
Starting Page	171
Ending Page	178
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03535150
Journal	Acta Analytica
Volume Number	30
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18746349
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-08-22
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Physicalism Rule-following Consciousness Kripke Wittgenstein Philosophy Logic Metaphysics Epistemology Philosophy of Mind
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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