Sensory Qualities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198240013)

Many philosophers doubt that one can provide any successful explanation of those qualities characterizing how things look, feel, or seem to a perceiving subject. To do so one would need to be able to explain qualitative facts in non-qualitative terms, and attempts to construct such an explanation seem doomed to failure. In this book Austen Clark presents an analysis of sensory qualities that refutes such skepticism and offers the possibility of a solution to the problem of qualia. Drawing on work in psychophysics, psychometrics, and sensory neurophysiology, he analyzes the character and defends the integrity of psychophysical explanations of qualitative facts, arguing that the structure of such explanations is sound and potentially successful.

Author: Austen Clark
ISBN-10: 0198240015
ISBN-13: 9780198240013
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 04/08/1993
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d