?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Reflexive+Monism&rft.creator=Velmans%2C+Prof+Max&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.subject=Metaphysics&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=Reflexive+monism+is%2C+in+essence%2C+an+ancient+view+of+how+consciousness+relates+to+the+material+world+that+has%2C+in+recent+decades%2C+been+resurrected+in+modern+form.+In+this+paper+I+discuss+how+some+of+its+basic+features+differ+from+both+dualism+and+variants+of+physicalist+and+functionalist+reductionism%2C+focusing+on+those+aspects+of+the+theory+that+challenge+deeply+rooted+presuppositions+in+current+Western+thought.+I+pay+particular+attention+to+the+ontological+status+and+seeming+%E2%80%9Cout-thereness%E2%80%9D+of+the+phenomenal+world+and+to+how+the+%E2%80%9Cphenomenal+world%E2%80%9D+relates+to+the+%E2%80%9Cphysical+world%E2%80%9D%2C+the+%E2%80%9Cworld+itself%E2%80%9D%2C+and+processing+in+the+brain.+In+order+to+place+the+theory+within+the+context+of+current+thought+and+debate%2C+I+address+questions+that+have+been+raised+about+reflexive+monism+in+recent+commentaries+and+also+evaluate+competing+accounts+of+the+same+issues+offered+by+%E2%80%9Ctransparency+theory%E2%80%9D+and+by+%E2%80%9Cbiological+naturalism%E2%80%9D.+I+argue+that%2C+of+the+competing+views+on+offer%2C+reflexive+monism+most+closely+follows+the+contours+of+ordinary+experience%2C+the+findings+of+science%2C+and+common+sense.&rft.publisher=Imprint+Academic&rft.date=2007-07&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5730%2F1%2FReflexive_Monism_final_version.pdf&rft.identifier=++Velmans%2C+Prof+Max++(2007)+Reflexive+Monism.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5730%2F