--- abstract: 'This essay is a defence of the traditional notion of qualia - as properties of consciousness that are ineffable, intrinsic, private and immediately apprehensible - against the eliminative attempts of Daniel Dennett in the influential article "Quining Qualia." It is suggested that a thorough exploration of the concept is an appropriate starting point for future explanations of qualia, and the essay ends with some possible explanations of the four traditional properties.' altloc: - http://lucs.fil.lu.se/Abstracts/LUCS_Studies/LUCS58.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: 'Dennett, D. (1988), "Quining Qualia," in Marcel and Bisiach (eds), Consciousness in Contemporary Science, Oxford: Clarendon Press.' confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: de Leon given: David honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1997 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-11-23 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/03/68 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 368 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/368/3/LUCS58.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: ~ issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Qualia, eliminativism, Dennett' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:51 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:27:02 subjects: - phil-mind succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: The Qualities of Qualia type: preprint userid: 35 volume: ~