Austen Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 5911082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Austen Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Austen |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tulsa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Classes of Sensory Classification: A Commentary on Mohan Matthen, Seeing, Doing, and Knowing
Vicissitudes of Consciousness, Varieties of Correlates
A Theory of Sentience
1. QUALITY SPACE 2. QUALITIES AND THEIR PLACES 3. PLACES PHENOMENAL AND REAL 4. SENSING AND REFERENCE 5. THE FEATURE-PLACING HYPOTHESIS 6. TRUE THEORIES, FALSE COLOURS REFERENCES INDEX
A Theory of Sentience
A Theory of Sentience
"Drawing on the findings of current neuroscience, Clark proposes and defends the hypothesis that various modalities of sensation share a generic form that he calls 'feature-placing'. Sensing proceeds by picking out place-times in or around the body of the sentient organism, and characterizing qualities (features) that appear at those place-time. Such feature-placing is a primitive kind - probably the most primitive kind - of mental representation…
True Theories, False Colors
Recent versions of objectivism can reply to the argument from metamers. The deeper rift between subjectivists and objectivists lies in the question of how to explain the structure of qualitative similarities among the colors. Subjectivism grounded in this fashion can answer the circularity objection raised by Dedrick. It endorses skepticism about the claim that there is some one property of objects that it is the function of color vision to detec…
Sensory Qualities
Sensory Qualities
Beliefs and Desires Incorporated
L'A. s'interroge sur l'attribution dans le langage d'intentions ou de croyances a des entites telles que gouvernements et institutions
The particulate instantiation of homogeneous pink
Psychofunctionalism and Chauvinism
The psychofunctionalist claim that psychological terms can be defined through the use of an experimental theory has been criticized on the grounds that it is “chauvinistic“: that it denies mentality to any creature of which the selected theory is false. I analyze the “argument from science fiction” that is thought to establish this conclusion, and show that its plausibility rests on a scope ambiguity in formulations of functional definitions. One…
Qualia and the psychophysiological explanation of color perception
The particulate instantiation of homogeneous pink
True Theories, False Colors
Recent versions of objectivism can reply to the argument from metamers. The deeper rift between subjectivists and objectivists lies in the question of how to explain the structure of qualitative similarities among the colors. Subjectivism grounded in this fashion can answer the circularity objection raised by Dedrick. It endorses skepticism about the claim that there is some one property of objects that it is the function of color vision to detec…
A Theory of Sentience
Qualia and the psychophysiological explanation of color perception
Qualia and the psychophysiological explanation of color perception
Psychofunctionalism and Chauvinism
The psychofunctionalist claim that psychological terms can be defined through the use of an experimental theory has been criticized on the grounds that it is “chauvinistic“: that it denies mentality to any creature of which the selected theory is false. I analyze the “argument from science fiction” that is thought to establish this conclusion, and show that its plausibility rests on a scope ambiguity in formulations of functional definitions. One…
The particulate instantiation of homogeneous pink
Beliefs and Desires Incorporated
L'A. s'interroge sur l'attribution dans le langage d'intentions ou de croyances a des entites telles que gouvernements et institutions
Sensory Qualities
True Theories, False Colors
Recent versions of objectivism can reply to the argument from metamers. The deeper rift between subjectivists and objectivists lies in the question of how to explain the structure of qualitative similarities among the colors. Subjectivism grounded in this fashion can answer the circularity objection raised by Dedrick. It endorses skepticism about the claim that there is some one property of objects that it is the function of color vision to detec…
Sensory Qualities
A Theory of Sentience
"Drawing on the findings of current neuroscience, Clark proposes and defends the hypothesis that various modalities of sensation share a generic form that he calls 'feature-placing'. Sensing proceeds by picking out place-times in or around the body of the sentient organism, and characterizing qualities (features) that appear at those place-time. Such feature-placing is a primitive kind - probably the most primitive kind - of mental representation…
A Theory of Sentience
1. QUALITY SPACE 2. QUALITIES AND THEIR PLACES 3. PLACES PHENOMENAL AND REAL 4. SENSING AND REFERENCE 5. THE FEATURE-PLACING HYPOTHESIS 6. TRUE THEORIES, FALSE COLOURS REFERENCES INDEX
A Theory of Sentience
Vicissitudes of Consciousness, Varieties of Correlates
Classes of Sensory Classification: A Commentary on Mohan Matthen, Seeing, Doing, and Knowing
Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy of science (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (2 works)