Consciousness and Conceptual Mastery

Mind 122 (486):fzt075 (2013)
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Abstract

Torin Alter (2013) attempts to rescue phenomenal concepts and the knowledge argument from the critique of Ball 2009 by appealing to conceptual mastery. I show that Alter’s appeal fails, and describe general features of conceptual mastery that suggest that no such appeal could succeed

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