Knowing what it's like

IF 1.6 1区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Andrew Y. Lee
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Abstract David Lewis—famously—never tasted vegemite. Did he have any knowledge of what it's like to taste vegemite? Most say ‘no’; I say ‘yes’. I argue that knowledge of what it's like varies along a spectrum from more exact to more approximate, and that phenomenal concepts vary along a spectrum in how precisely they characterize what it's like to undergo their target experiences. This degreed picture contrasts with the standard all‐or‐nothing picture, where phenomenal concepts and phenomenal knowledge lack any such degreed structure. I motivate the degreed picture by appeal to (1) limits in epistemic abilities such as recognition, imagination, and inference, and (2) the semantics of ‘knows what it's like’ expressions. I argue that approximate phenomenal knowledge cannot be explained merely via determinable or vague phenomenal concepts. I develop a framework for systematizing approximate knowledge of phenomenal character. And I explain how my view challenges some standard assumptions about the acquisition conditions, requirements for mastery, and referential mechanisms of phenomenal concepts.
知道那是什么感觉
摘要:众所周知,大卫·刘易斯从未尝过维吉麦酱。他知道品尝维吉麦酱是什么感觉吗?大多数人说“不”;我说“是的”。我认为,对事物的认识从更精确到更近似,在一个范围内变化,现象概念在描述目标体验的精确程度上也在变化。这种分级的图景与标准的全有或全无的图景形成对比,在标准的图景中,现象概念和现象知识缺乏任何这样的分级结构。我通过呼吁(1)认知能力的限制,如识别、想象和推理,以及(2)“知道它是什么样的”表达的语义来激发程度图。我认为近似的现象知识不能仅仅通过可确定的或模糊的现象概念来解释。我开发了一个框架来系统化现象特征的近似知识。我解释了我的观点是如何挑战一些关于现象概念的习得条件、掌握要求和参考机制的标准假设的。
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