Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-415
Authors: Schlicht, Tobias
Title: Explaining subjective character : representation, reflexivity, or integration? ; A commentary on Kenneth Williford
Online publication date: 4-Nov-2016
Year of first publication: 2015
Language: english
Abstract: While Williford puts forward a self-reflexive account of subjective character, which identifies the subject of experience with episodes (or the stream) of consciousness, an alternative account is defended here that identifies the subject of experience with the whole organism. On this latter approach, a mental representation is conscious if its neural substrate is integrated into the overall neuronal state underlying the conscious state of the organism at that time. This approach avoids an important problem arising for Williford’s theory, namely the individuation of episodes. This problem is elaborated in greater detail.
DDC: 100 Philosophie
100 Philosophy
Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department: FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie
Place: Mainz
ROR: https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-415
URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-551006
Version: Published version
Publication type: Buchbeitrag
License: In Copyright
Information on rights of use: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Citation: Open MIND
Metzinger, Thomas
Pages or article number: Kap. 39(C)
Publisher: MIND Group
Publisher place: Frankfurt am Main
Issue date: 2015
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15502/9783958570061
Publisher DOI: 10.15502/9783958570061
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