Phenomenal Properties and the Intuition of Distinctness - The View From the Inside

Explores the question of whether the phenomenal properties of our experiences (what those experiences are like for us) can be anything over and above our physical properties (those properties that are attributed to us by the descriptions of us that the empirical sciences produce).

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: The Intuition of Distinctness and Some of Its Manifestations


• 3: Why Not Take the Intuition of Distinctness at Face Value?


• 4: Previous Accounts of the Intuition of Distinctness


• 5: What, Then, Does Account for the Intuition of Distinctness?

About the author

Andrew Melnyk earned his MA (1985), BPhil (1987), and DPhil (1991) from the University of Oxford. In 1991, he joined the University of Missouri (MU) as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy. He was tenured in 1997 and he was promoted to Professor in 2005. From 2006 to 2012, he was Chair of MU's Philosophy Department.

Summary

Explores the question of whether the phenomenal properties of our experiences (what those experiences are like for us) can be anything over and above our physical properties (those properties that are attributed to us by the descriptions of us that the empirical sciences produce).

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Melnyk, Andrew (Professor of Philosophy Melnyk, Melnyk Andrew
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2025
• EAN: 9780198942320
• ISBN: 978-0-19-894232-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge