Essence, Revelation, and Physicalism
| dc.contributor.author | Smith, Justyn Glynn | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Trogdon, Kelly Griffith | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Hoek, Daniel | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Patton, Lydia K. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Philosophy | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-04T08:00:45Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-04T08:00:45Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-06-03 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Revelation is (roughly) the thesis that the natures of phenomenal properties are revealed through experience. In this paper, I respond to Antonin Broi's charge that if both Revelation and the quality space view of phenomenal properties are true, then counterintuitive results that speak against the truth of Revelation obtain. I present a qualified theory of Revelation that not only prevents his arguments from succeeding but has independent plausibility as a solution to worries about the alleged epiphenomenalism of phenomenal properties. | en |
| dc.description.abstractgeneral | When you taste a Golden Delicious apple, drink Ethiopian coffee, feel dental pain, hear classical music or have many other conscious experiences of things, there's *something it's like* to be in those states. The taste of the apple and the coffee and the feel of dental pain are phenomenal properties - the "feels" of things in the broadest possible sense. Philosophers wonder what these things - "feels" - really are. Are they neurological features of your brain or a material features generally or are they something different? In a recent essay, Antonin Broi attacks the idea that they are something other than material or brain states. If Revelation - the idea that experiences reveal the essences of phenomenal properties - and some ideas about the general nature of phenomenal properties are both true, then strange results arise. I argue against his reasoning and I give a better way to understand Revelation. | en |
| dc.description.degree | Master of Arts | en |
| dc.format.medium | ETD | en |
| dc.identifier.other | vt_gsexam:30217 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103599 | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Revelation | en |
| dc.subject | physicalism | en |
| dc.subject | Broi | en |
| dc.subject | quality space | en |
| dc.subject | essence | en |
| dc.title | Essence, Revelation, and Physicalism | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Philosophy | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts | en |
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