The semantic approach as an anti-physicalist renewal of the explanatory gap problem in contemporary philosophy of mind

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dc.contributor.authorCanning, Adrienne
dc.contributor.supervisorFoss, Jeffrey E.
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-02T19:58:44Z
dc.date.available2014-01-02T19:58:44Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2014-01-02
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Philosophyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractContemporary philosopher, Joseph Levine, has argued that human phenomenological experience cannot be explained solely through the resources of neuroscience, and that a significant ‘explanatory gap’ exists between the rich features of human experience and scientific explanations of the mind. This thesis examines Guiseppina D’Oro’s novel suggestion that the gap exists, but that it is a semantic rather than an empirical problem. D’Oro argues that the ‘gap’ is a persistent philosophical problem because of its semantic nature, and that advances in neuroscience will fail to resolve the gap because its source is a conceptual distinction that is not marked by empirical difference. In the thesis I will discuss some virtues and difficulties with D’Oro’s thesis, and the implications her claim has more broadly for philosophers of mind.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0422en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5124
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectphilosophy of minden_US
dc.subjectmind-body problemen_US
dc.subjectphysicalismen_US
dc.subjectidealismen_US
dc.subjectexplanatory gapen_US
dc.subjectsemantic gapen_US
dc.titleThe semantic approach as an anti-physicalist renewal of the explanatory gap problem in contemporary philosophy of minden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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