The Experience of Non-Sensory Pleasure

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titleThe Experience of Non-Sensory Pleasure
start_date2018/11/26
schedule16h-18h
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location_infoInstitut Jean-Nicod
summaryConscious sensory perception is a paradigmatic and relatively well-understood type of conscious experience. Thus, a common theoretical approach in philosophy of mind seeks to reduce all conscious experience to the senses, including all experience of pleasure and pain. I argue that this approach to consciousness is mistaken ; it cannot do justice to the variety and complexity of human experience. To illustrate, I discuss two kinds of non-sensory pleasure and pain : the emotional and the aesthetic. I review some examples of emotional and aesthetic algedonic experience, and I explain why it cannot be reduced merely to the sensory.
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