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JOSEPH LEVINE. Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap. IN "Naming and Necessity川 and"Identity and Necessity,"" Kripke presents a version of the Cartesian argument against mate rialism. His argument involves two central claims: first, that all identity state ments using rigid designators on both sides of the identitysign are, if true ...
Joseph Levine (born January 17, 1952) is an American philosopher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who received his PhD from Harvard University in 1981. He works on philosophy of mind and is best known for formulating the explanatory gap argument against a materialist explanation for consciousness. [1]
JOSEPH LEVINE Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap J n “Naming and Necessity”1 and “Identity and Necessity,”2 Kripke presents a version of the Cartesian argument against mate rialism. His argument involves two central claims: first, that all identity state
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A Posteriori Physicalism and the Explanatory Gap, forthcoming in Uriah Kriegel, ed., Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness
Joseph Levine argues that there is an “explanatory gap” between the brain and the conscious mind. Papineau agrees that there is such a gap, but points out that similar gaps are found with all identity claims involving directly referring terms, and so the gap does nothing to discredit materialism.
Joseph Levine. Purple Haze. The Puzzle of Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 204 pp. TERRY HORGAN University of Arizona This is a fine book-clearly and engagingly written, packed with arguments that vigorously engage the contemporary philosophical literature, dialecti-cally powerful.
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Joseph Levine draws together a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive approach to philosophy of mind. He defends a materialist view of the mind against various challenges, and offers illuminating studies of consciousness, phenomenal concepts, mental representation, demonstrative thought, and cognitive phenomenology.
