Concept

Qualia

Overview

individual instances of subjective, conscious experience

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Qualia

• Jaegwon Kim
• David Chalmers
• C. I. Lewis
• Peter Hacker
• Hilary Putnam
• William Lycan
• Daniel Dennett
• Ted Honderich
• Keith Frankish
• Jakob Johann von Uexküll
• Christopher Peacocke
• Joseph Levine (philosopher)

Related ideas

• Gilbert Ryle
• What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
• Roger Scruton
• Analogy
• Reification (fallacy)
• Subjective character of experience
• Mind–body problem
• Artificial intelligence
• Sapienza University of Rome
• Philosophy
• Isomorphism
• Integrated circuit
• Consciousness Explained
• John Locke
• Mind–body dualism
• Latin
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Intentionality
• Functionalism (philosophy of mind)
• Gerald Edelman
• Thomas Nagel
• Marvin Minsky
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Monadology

Opposing perspectives

• Direct and indirect realism
• Proposition
• Animal consciousness
• Extended mind thesis
• Multiple drafts model

Place in the tradition

Part of Outline of philosophy.

Narrower topics:

• University of Michigan
• Alex Byrne (philosopher)
• Thinking about Consciousness
• William Hirstein
• I of the Vortex

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