Learning to Appreciate the Gray Areas
A Critical Notice of Anil Gupta’s “Conscious Experience”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21408946 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Hochstein (0000-0001-9741-4469, University of Victoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 801-813 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-5091 • E-ISSN: 1911-0820 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/can.2020.32 |
| OpenAlex | W3001989153 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Anil Gupta’s Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry provides an impressive and novel account of rational justification based on conscious experience which is used as a foundation for a new theory of empiricism. In this critical notice, I argue that Gupta’s project is fascinating, but is often hampered by a lack of sufficient philosophical justification and clarity regarding some essential features of his project, as well as a lack of engagement with relevant scientific domains that would directly bear on it, such as computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive psychology. This limits the sort of logical inquiry available to him in problematic ways
CLARITY · Cognition · Cognitive science · Empiricism · Epistemology · Foundation (evidence) · Notice · Philosophy of science · Political science · Sociology · Chemistry · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Law · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
|---|