Are Phenomenal Theories of Thought Chauvinistic?

American Philosophical Quarterly 61 (3):199-213 (2024)
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Abstract

The phenomenal view of thought holds that thinking is an experience with phenomenal character that determines what the thought is about. This paper develops and responds to the objection that the phenomenal view is chauvinistic: it withholds thoughts from creatures that in fact have them. I develop four chauvinism objections to the phenomenal view—one from introspection, one from interpersonal differences, one from thought experiments, and one from the unconscious thought paradigm in psychology—and show that the phenomenal view can resist all four.

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Preston Lennon
Rutgers - New Brunswick

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