?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=What+It's+Like+and+Why%3A+Subjective+Qualia+Explained+as+Objective+Phenomena&rft.creator=Medina%2C+Jeffrey+A.&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Metaphysics&rft.description=Notably+spurred+into+the+philosophical+forefront+by+Thomas+Nagel's+'What+Is+It+Like+To+Be+a+Bat%3F'+decades+ago%2C+and+since+maintained+by+a+number+of+advocates+of+dualism+since+that+critical+publication%2C+is+the+assertion+that+our+inability+to+know+'what+it's+like'+to+be+someone+or+something+else+is+inexplicable+given+physicalism.++Contrary+to+this+well-known+and+central+objection%2C+I+find+that+a+consistent+and+exhaustive+physicalism+is+readily+conceivable.++I+develop+one+such+theory+and+demonstrate+that+not+only+is+it+consistent+with+the+private+and+varied+nature+of+subjective+experience%2C+it%2C+in+fact%2C+entails+it.&rft.date=2002-11&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2649%2F1%2Fmedina_subj.html&rft.identifier=++Medina%2C+Jeffrey+A.++(2002)+What+It's+Like+and+Why%3A+Subjective+Qualia+Explained+as+Objective+Phenomena.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2649%2F