Capacitism and Phenomenal Variance

Arnon Cahen

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Capacitism and Phenomenal Variance

Arnon Cahen^*

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Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	259-261
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52231-4_31
State	Published - 2024

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Name	Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
Volume	60
ISSN (Print)	2214-9775
ISSN (Electronic)	2214-9783

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