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Philosophy of consciousness :: Qualia

Qualia, general [15]
Qualia and materialism [7]
Eliminativism about qualia [8]
The inverted spectrum [30]
Absent qualia [3]
Functionalism and qualia, general [5]

Qualia, general

See also: Qualia and materialism, Eliminativism about qualia, The inverted spectrum, Absent qualia, Functionalism and qualia, general, Adverbialism and qualia theories, Perceptual qualities, The given, Sensation and perception.

Torin Alter (2003). Qualia. (More)
Andrew Bailey (1998). Phenomenal Properties: The Epistemology and Metaphysics of Qualia. (More)
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https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/1880/25916/1/34714Bailey.pdf
Andrew Bailey (manuscript). Qualia and the argument from illusion. (More)
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http://www.springerlink.com/index/B011QR0841HW85J2.pdf
http://transactionpub.metapress.com/index/B011QR0841HW85J2.pdf
Ned Block (2004). Qualia. (More)
Ned Block (online). Wittgenstein and qualia. (More)
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http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/Wittgenstein_Qualia.pdf
Austen Clark (forthcoming). Phenomenal properties: Some models from psychology and philosophy. (More)
Austen Clark (1985). Qualia and the psychophysical explanation of color perception. (More)
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http://www.springerlink.com/index/M251244574UP8611.pdf
Tim Crane (2000). The origins of qualia. (More)
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https://www.uclu.org/philosophy/adobedocs/The origins of qualia.pdf
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/adobedocs/The origins of qualia.pdf
Richard Gregory (1996). Peculiar qualia. (More)
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http://www.pion.co.uk/perception/perc0796/editorial.html
http://www.perceptionweb.com/perception/perc0796/editorial.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=8923546&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=8923546&dopt=Citation
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8923546&dopt=Citation
Amy Kind (2001). Qualia realism. (More)
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http://www.springerlink.com/index/H8630335313K5QG6.pdf
http://www.kluweronline.com/article.asp?PIPS=282369&PDF=1
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/phil/2001/00000104/00000002/00282369
Eric Lormand (1994). Qualia! (Now showing at a theater near you). (More)
Thomas Metzinger (2000). Commentary on Jakab's Ineffability of Qualia. (More)
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http://www.philosophie.uni-mainz.de/metzinger/publikationen/2000l.pdf
http://www.philosophie.uni-mainz.de/metzinger/publikationen/2000l.rtf
http://sammelpunkt.philo.at:8080/archive/00000268/
http://www.philosophie.uni-mainz.de/metzinger/publikationen/2000l.html
http://sammelpunkt.philo.at:8080/archive/00000268
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10993663&dopt=Citation
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=10993663&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S105381000090463X
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/10538100/2000/00000009/00000003/art90463
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ap/cc/2000/00000009/00000003/art00463
William Robinson (online). Qualia realism. (More)
Mark Sharlow (manuscript). Qualia and the problem of universals. (More)
Michael Tye (online). Qualia. (More)

Qualia and materialism

See also: Explaining consciousness?, Materialism and dualism, Qualia, general, Absent qualia, Adverbialism and qualia theories, Physicalism.

Istvan Aranyosi (2003). Physical constituents of qualia. (More)
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http://www.consc.net/cgi/go.fcgi?id=ARAPCO&free=0&u=http://www.springerlink.com/index/GL2324R641762554.pdf
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/03/Istvan_Aranyosi/Physical Constituents of Qualia, Aranyosi.pdf
http://www.springerlink.com/content/gl2324r641762554/fulltext.pdf
http://www.springerlink.com/index/GL2324R641762554.pdf
http://www.kluweronline.com/article.asp?PIPS=5144615&PDF=1
http://journals.kluweronline.com/article.asp?PIPS=5144615
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/phil/2003/00000116/00000002/05144615
Andrew Bailey (manuscript). Multiple realizability, qualia, and natural kinds. (More)
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http://www.uoguelph.ca/~abailey/papers/Multiple Realizability, Qualia and Natural Kinds.pdf
Nick Bostrom (manuscript). Quantity of experience: Brain duplication and degrees of consciousness. (More)
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http://www.consc.net/cgi/go.fcgi?id=BOSQOE&free=0&u=http://www.springerlink.com/index/V1X24V662H5726W5.pdf
http://consc.net/cgi/go.fcgi?id=BOSQOE&free=0&u=http://www.springerlink.com/index/V1X24V662H5726W5.pdf
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1176948.1176978
http://www.springerlink.com/index/V1X24V662H5726W5.pdf
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v1x24v662h5726w5/fulltext.pdf
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/mind/2006/00000016/00000002/00009036
Austen Clark (1985). A physicalist theory of qualia. (More)
Kelly Jolley & Michael Watkins (1998). What is it like to be a phenomenologist? (More)
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http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8094(199804)48:191<204:WIILTB>2.0.CO;2-I
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9213.00094
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/phiq/1998/00000048/00000191/art00007
David Newman (2004). Chaos and qualia. (More)
Dennis Nicholson (manuscript). How qualia can be physical. (More)
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http://cogprints.org/4786/01/HQCBPcoghtml.htm

Eliminativism about qualia

See also: Dennett's functionalism, Eliminativism, Representationalism, Qualia, general, Adverbialism and qualia theories, Perceptual qualities, Transparency, The given.

David de Leon (2001). The qualities of qualia. (More)
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http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000368/
http://www.lucs.lu.se/ftp/pub/LUCS_Studies/LUCS58.pdf
http://cogprints.org/368/00/LUCS58.pdf
http://lu-research.lub.lu.se/php/gateway.php?who=lr&method=getfile&file=archive/00009254/
http://www.lucs.lu.se/Abstracts/LUCS_Studies/LUCS58.html
Daniel Dennett (1991). Lovely and suspect qualities. (More)
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http://cogprints.org/263/
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/02/63/
http://cogprints.org/263/00/lovely&s.htm
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/lovely&s.htm
http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/citations?archiveID=oai:cogprints.soton.ac.uk:263
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1533-6077(1991)1<37:LASQ>2.0.CO;2-U
Daniel Dennett (1988). Quining qualia. (More)
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http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000254/00/quinqual.htm
http://cogprints.org/254/00/quinqual.htm
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=190704.190721
http://cogprints.org/254/
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/02/54/
http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000254/
Daniel Dennett (manuscript). Two black boxes: A fable. (More)
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http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/citations?archiveID=oai:cogprints.soton.ac.uk:247
http://cogprints.org/247/
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/twoblack.htm
http://cogprints.org/247/00/twoblack.htm
Anthony Everett (1996). Qualia and vagueness. (More)
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http://www.springerlink.com/index/W81630158JM03018.pdf
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/synt/1996/00000106/00000002/00108040
Danielle Mason (2005). Demystifying without quining: Wittgenstein and Dennett on qualitative states. (More)
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http://www.ajol.info/viewarticle.php?jid=211&id=24041
http://www.ajol.info/viewarticle.php?jid=211&id=24041&layout=abstract
Eugene Park (1997). Against Dennett's eliminativism: Preserving qualia as a coherent concept. (More)
Edmond Wright (online). The defence of qualia. (More)

The inverted spectrum

See also: Zombies and the conceivability argument, Representationalism, Qualia, general, Absent qualia, The representation of color, Perceptual qualities.

U. Bangert, R. Barnes, L. S. Hounsome, R. Jones, A. T. Blumenau, P. R. Briddon, M. J. Shaw & S. Oberg (2006). Electron energy loss spectroscopic studies of brown diamonds. (More)
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http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/K5418885624120M8.pdf
http://www.informaworld.com/index/749318929.pdf
Alex Byrne (online). Gert on the shifted spectrum. (More)
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http://web.mit.edu/abyrne/www/gertAPAcomment.pdf
Alex Byrne & David Hilbert (2006). Hoffman's "proof" of the possibility of spectrum inversion. (More)
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=16546036&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1053810006000079
Alex Byrne (online). Inverted qualia. (More)
Alex Byrne (1999). Subjectivity is no barrier. (More)
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http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0140525X99272214
http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0140525X99272214
Austen Clark (online). A subjectivist reply to spectrum inversion. (More)
Austen Clark (online). Inversions spectral and bright: Comments on Melinda Campbell. (More)
Austen Clark (1985). Spectrum inversion and the color solid. (More)
David Cole (manuscript). Inverted spectrum arguments. (More)
Daniel Dennett (1994). Instead of qualia. (More)
Daniel Dennett (1999). Swift and enormous. (More)
David Hilbert & Mark Eli Kalderon (2000). Color and the inverted spectrum. (More)
Donald Hoffman (2006). The scrambling theorem: A simple proof of the logical possibility of spectrum inversion. (More)
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=16061397&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1053810005000838
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16061397&dopt=Citation
Donald Hoffman (2006). The scrambling theorem unscrambled: A response to commentaries. (More)
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=16546037&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1053810006000055
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16546037&dopt=Citation
Eric Marcus (2006). Intentionalism and the imaginability of the inverted spectrum. (More)
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2006.00445.x
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/phiq/2006/00000056/00000224/art00001
B. J. McKeon & J. F. Morrison (2007). Asymptotic scaling in turbulent pipe flow. (More)
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17244590&dopt=Citation
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=17244590&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
Ulrich Meyer (2000). Do pseudonormal persons have inverted qualia? (More)
Erik Myin (1999). Beyond intrinsicness and dazzling blacks. (More)
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http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0140525X99432212
http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0140525X99432212
Erik Myin (2001). Constrained inversions of sensations. (More)
Martine Nida-Rumelin (1999). Intrinsic phenomenal properties in color science: A reply to Peter Ross. (More)
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=10600251&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1053810099904154
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10600251&dopt=Citation
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/10538100/1999/00000008/00000004/art90415
Gerard O'Brien & Jonathan Opie (1999). Finding a place for experience in the physical-relational structure of the brain. (More)
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http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/humanities/philosophy/publications/Commentary_on_Palmer.pdf
http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0140525X99452215
Stephen Palmer (1999). Color, consciousness, and the isomorphism constraint. (More)
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http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cogsci/private/palmer-isomorphism.pdf
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/swiftandenormous.pdf
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.palmer.html
http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0140525X99002216
http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S0140525X99382212
http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S0140525X99482214
http://journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid=30958
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11301573&dopt=Citation
Peter Ross (1999). Color science and spectrum inversion: A reply to Nida-Rumelin. (More)
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http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S105381009990418X
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10600250&dopt=Citation
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=10600250&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/10538100/1999/00000008/00000004/art90418
Peter Ross (1999). Color science and spectrum inversion: Further thoughts. (More)
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http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1053810099904191
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/10538100/1999/00000008/00000004/art90419
Sydney Shoemaker (1996). Color, subjective reactions, and qualia. (More)
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http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1533-6077(1996)7<55:CSRAQ>2.0.CO;2-0
Robert Stalnaker (1999). Comparing qualia across persons. (More)
Par Sundstrom (2002). An argument against spectrum inversion. (More)
Brad Thompson (forthcoming). Representationalism and the conceivability of inverted spectra. (More)
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http://www.springerlink.com/index/3g7582g674nm10u2.pdf
Christopher Viger (1999). The possibility of subisomorphic experiential differences. (More)
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http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0140525X99552217
http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0140525X99552217
R. Widmer, O. Groning, P. Ruffieux & P. Groning (2006). Low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy on the 5-fold surface of the icosahedral alpdmn quasicrystal. (More)
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http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006PMag...86..781W
http://www.informaworld.com/index/741487153.pdf
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/L1T6G36X6795864J.pdf
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/tphm/2006/00000086/F0030006/art00012

Absent qualia

See also: Zombies and the conceivability argument, Functionalism, The inverted spectrum, Functionalism and qualia, general, The Chinese room.

Functionalism and qualia, general

See also: Dennett's functionalism, Functionalism, The inverted spectrum, Absent qualia, Functionalism and behaviorism.

David Chalmers (1995). Absent qualia, fading qualia, dancing qualia. (More)
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http://consc.net/papers/qualia.ps
http://cogprints.org/318/00/qualia.html
http://consc.net/papers/qualia.html
http://cogprints.org/318/
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/qualia.ps
http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000318/
http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/citations?archiveID=oai:cogprints.soton.ac.uk:318
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/03/18/
Andy Clark (2000). A case where access implies qualia? (More)
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http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cogsci/private/clark-access-qualia.pdf
http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/andy/ACaseWhereAccessImpliesQualia.pdf
http://www.theswartzfoundation.org/docs/clark_presentation.doc
http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/staff/clark/pubs/ACaseWhereAccessImpliesQualia.pdf
http://www.swartzneuro.org/docs/clark_presentation.doc
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/anal/2000/00000060/00000265/art00005
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/anal/2000/00000060/00000265/art00199
Danko Georgiev (manuscript). Chalmers' principle of organizational invariance makes consciousness fundamental but meaningless spectator of its own drama. (More)
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http://cogprints.org/3548/01/mind.pdf
Philip Pettit (2003). Looks as powers. (More)
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1533-6077.00013
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1533-6077.00013
B. van Heuveln, Eric Dietrich & M. Oshima (1998). Let's dance! The equivocation in Chalmers' dancing qualia argument. (More)
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http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=596772
http://www.springerlink.com/index/X0803522268820G7.pdf
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/mind/1998/00000008/00000002/00150464

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