?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Consciousness%3A+explaining+the+phenomena.&rft.creator=Carruthers%2C+Peter&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=Can+phenomenal+consciousness+be+given+a+reductive+natural+explanation%3F+Many+people+argue+not.+They+claim+that+there+is+an+'explanatory+gap'+between+physical+and%2For+intentional+states+and+processes%2C+on+the+one+hand%2C+and+phenomenal+consciousness%2C+on+the+other.+I+reply+that%2C+since+we+have+purely+recognitional+concepts+of+experience%2C+there+is+indeed+a+sort+of+gap+at+the+level+of+concepts%3B+but+this+need+not+mean+that+the+properties+picked+out+by+those+concepts+are+inexplicable.+I+show+how+dispositionalist+higher-order+thought+(HOT)+theory+can+reductively+explain+the+subjective+feel+of+experience+by+deploying+a+form+of+'consumer+semantics'.+First-order+perceptual+contents+become+transformed%2C+acquiring+a+dimension+of+subjectivity%2C+by+virtue+to+their+availability+to+a+mind-reading+(HOT+generating)+consumer+system.&rft.publisher=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.contributor=Walsh%2C+Denis&rft.date=2002&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2235%2F1%2FExplaining-the-phenomena.htm&rft.identifier=++Carruthers%2C+Peter++(2002)+Consciousness%3A+explaining+the+phenomena.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2235%2F