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Ridiculing social constructivism about phenomenal consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

Ned Block
Ned Block
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Department of Philosophy, New York University, New York, NY 10003-6688 ned.block@nyu.edu www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block
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Money is a cultural construction, leukemia is not. In which category does phenomenal consciousness fit? The issueis clarified by a distinction between what cultural phenomena causally influence and what culture constitutes. Culture affects phenomenal consciousness but it is ridiculous to suppose that culture constitutes it, even in part.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1999 , pp. 199 - 201
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press