Poetics, Perception, Disinterestedness: An Online Notebook

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Heterophenomenology and Qualia

Heterophenomenology is Daniel C Dennett's third-person approach to the science of consciousness. It's similar to a method that readers of literature use to believe, detail, and interpret the actions, thoughts, and characters of what they read to form their definitive version of the work of art.

Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (2005) is Dennett's later book on heterophenomenology.

An End to Qualia? Dennett's Defense of Heterophenomenology (Spring 2007): A short review: Dennett goes on the offensive against the 'new mysterians', those who argue that the problem of consciousness is fundamentally unsolvable or requires an explanatory framework outside that used by observational science.

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