Capacitism and Phenomenal Variance

In this chapter, I focus on one challenge to Schellenberg’s capacitism, which can be straightforwardly captured by the following trilemma: 1.Capacities First: “Employing perceptual capacities [to discriminate and single out particulars] constitutes phenomenal character as well as perceptual content.”(Schellenberg, this volume, Chap. 28, p. 178) 2. “Individuation Condition: A perceptual capacity Cα is individuated by the mind independent particulars α1, α2, α3, … αn that the perceptual capacity functions to single out.”(Schellenberg, this volume, Chap. 28, p. 180) 3. Phenomenal Variability: The same particular successfully discriminated and singled out (or different particulars of the same type) can be experienced in a wide variety of ways.