The Phenomenal and the Representational

We differ from things without minds in two main ways. First, we are conscious: we instantiate phenomenal properties. Second, we represent our world as being certain ways: we instantiate representational properties. Jeff Speaks explores the nature of phenomenal properties and of representational properties, and the relationship between them.

Jeff Speaks received his PhD from Princeton in 2003, and has taught at McGill University and the University of Notre Dame.

I: Two kinds of properties of subjects
II: From transparency to intentionalism
III: Intermodal intentionalism and nonconceptual content
IV: The metaphysics of representational properties
V: Availability and the scope of perceptual representation
VI: How many phenomenal relations?
VII: Phenomenal identity and indiscriminability
VII: The reduction of phenomenal properties