The extra qualia problem: synaesthesia and representationism

Author: Wager A.

Source: Philosophical Psychology, Volume 12, Number 3, 1 September 1999 , pp. 263-281(19)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

Representationism is the view that the phenomenal character of an experience supervenes on its representational content. Synaesthesia is a condition in which the phenomenal character of the experience produced in a subject by stimulation of one sensory modality contains elements characteristic of a second, unstimulated sensory modality. After reviewing some of the recent psychological literature on synaesthesia and one of the leading versions of representationism, I argue that cases of synaesthesia, as instances of what I call the extra qualia problem, are counterexamples to externalist versions of representationism.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 1999-09-01

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