[Wittrs] On the Varieties of Dualism
- From: Joseph Polanik <jpolanik@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:20:53 -0500
jrstern wrote:
>Joseph Polanik wrote:
>>in my opinion, Searle should have said that consciousness has and
>>irreducibly first-person phenomenology. that would mean only that he
>>accepts what I call phenomenological dualism -- the irreducible
>>difference between measurable phenomena and experienceable
>>phenomena.
>>the point is that claiming that there is an irreducible
>>phenomenological dualism is to stand on dualist ground; but, it is
>>not to stand where Descartes stands.
>Of course it is. Unless it's worse. Rorty covers this in that
>introduction I mentioned yesterday.
I've reread the introduction; but, there is nothing there to suggest
that noticing the difference between watching a sunset and measuring the
wavelengths of the light the sun gives off is equivalent to adopting
dualism of the Cartesian stripe.
care to elaborate?
Joe
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