Preserving the Normative Significance of Sentience

IF 1.6 4区 心理学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Leonard Dung
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Abstract

According to an orthodox view, the capacity for conscious experience (sentience) is relevant to the distribution of moral status and value. However, physicalism about consciousness might threaten the normative relevance of sentience. According to the indeterminacy argument, sentience is metaphysically indeterminate while indeterminacy of sentience is incompatible with its normative relevance. According to the introspective argument (by François Kammerer), the unreliability of our conscious introspection undercuts the justification for belief in the normative relevance of consciousness. I defend the normative relevance of sentience against these objections. First, I demonstrate that physicalists only have to concede a limited amount of indeterminacy of sentience. This moderate indeterminacy is in harmony with the role of sentience in determining moral status. Second, I argue that physicalism gives us no reason to expect that introspection is unreliable with respect to the normative relevance of consciousness.
维护知觉的规范意义
根据正统观点,有意识体验的能力(智识)与道德地位和价值的分配相关。然而,关于意识的物理主义可能会威胁到知觉的规范相关性。根据不确定性论证,知觉在形而上学上是不确定的,而知觉的不确定性与其规范相关性是不相容的。根据内省论证(弗朗索瓦-卡默勒著),我们有意识的内省的不可靠性削弱了相信意识的规范相关性的理由。针对这些反对意见,我为有知觉的规范相关性进行了辩护。首先,我证明物理主义者只需承认有知觉的有限不确定性。这种适度的不确定性与有知觉在决定道德地位方面的作用是一致的。其次,我认为物理主义没有理由让我们认为内省在意识的规范相关性方面是不可靠的。
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