Not exact matches
Among present
philosophers, apparently Feigl (1967) is a prominent representative of those identists who deduce their conception from the
experienced psychic phenomena.
Moskop claims that there are five points of agreement between the two
philosophers: both maintain that ethics is» (1) teleological, (2) having its telos in
experience, (3) requiring qualitative distinctions
among experiences, (4) based on an aesthetic criterion of good
experience, and (5) altruistic» (MH 19).
Among philosophers working on the mind / body problem, the word «qualia» stands for all those features of consciousness that give awareness its specific identity as a particular kind of
experience: the redness of red, the sadness of depression, the piquancy of papaya juice, the irksomeness of traffic jams, the crankiness that comes from insomnia, the hurt feelings arising from playground taunts, and so forth.
By means of accounts given by,
among others, a psychoanalyst, a neurologist, a surgeon, a
philosopher, a historian, a dancer and a musician, the phenomenon of phantom pain is viewed as a symptom of the denial and invisibility of such traumas as genocide, slavery and colonisation that are
experienced collectively.