質的意識の表象説

Abstract

Representationalism identifies the qualitative character of consciousness with a sort of representational content. The most famous objections to this view are posed by the arguments from 'Inverted Earth' and bodily sensations. I will review these arguments and some responses and conclude that the arguments can be answered by modifying the ideas of representation and its content. However, it will be revealed that representationalism has an explanatory problem of how to locate the qualitative character when we attempt to characterize the representational content as either an external or an internal one. In the final part of the paper, I will address this problem by appealing to the idea of non-conceptual content in a certain manner.