Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap
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“Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap” (1983) is a paper by the American philosopher Joseph Levine in which he introduced the notion of the explanatory gap.
In the paper, Levine used as an example the sentence, "Pain is the firing of C fibers", pointing out that while it might be valid in a physiological sense, it does not help us to understand how pain feels.
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- "IN "Naming and Necessity" and "Identity and Necessity,"" Kripke presents a version of the Cartesian argument against materialism. His argument involves two central claims: first, that all identity statements using rigid designators on both sides of the identitysign are, if true at all, true in all possible worlds where the terms refer; second, that psycho-physical identity statements are conceivably false, and therefore， by the 1st claim, actually false."
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See also
- Consciousness
- Explanation
- Mind-body problem
- Neural correlates of consciousness
- Philosophy of mind
- Qualia
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