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Qualia (Part 3): Daniel Dennett and Frank Jackson on Mental Experience

Qualia (Part 3): Daniel Dennett and Frank Jackson on Mental Experience

FromOn The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast


Qualia (Part 3): Daniel Dennett and Frank Jackson on Mental Experience

FromOn The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast

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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Aug 28, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this third episode of a four part series, I first take a brief sojourn into a story involving the unlikely pair of AJ Ayer and Mike Tyson.  Then, I get into the meat of the episode by diving deeper into the work of Daniel Dennett and his criticism of the very notion of qualia and I also touch on some of its similarities to the Private Language Argument of Ludwig Wittgenstein. To counter this criticism of qualia, I then look at a well known thought experiment by Frank Jackson that argues that our mental experience forms an ineliminable part of our epistemology.  
Released:
Aug 28, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (61)

A self-indulgent vanity project of a man with a microphone in hand, each episode explores a philosophical theme hopefully with a certain degree of accuracy. I try to keep it pretty light. More philosophy nerd than academic, it sprung out of free time during the pandemic. @KMaca5