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Blindsight, orgasm, and representational overlap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Michael Tye
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122. tye@templevm.bitnet

Abstract

It is argued that there is no fallacy in the reasoning in the example of the thirsty blindsight subject, on one reconstruction of that reasoning. Neither the case of orgasm nor the case of a visual versus an auditory experience as of something overheard shows that phenomenal content is not representational.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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