qualophile
qualophile noun: a cognitive scientist who endorses qualia as being unmeasurable by heterophenomenology.
Noun
qualophile (plural qualophiles)
- A cognitive scientist who endorses qualia as being unmeasurable by heterophenomenology.
- 1994. Daniel Dennett, Get Real, in Philosophical Topics, vol. 22, no. 1 & 2, Spring & Fall 1994, pp. 505-568 https://web.archive.org/web/20070715205004/http://cogprints.org/280/00/getreal.htm
"figment, for instance. It is an attractive feature to qualophiles until I find a suitably abusive way of... - "So what is the explanatory problem that bothers the qualophile (to use Dennett's term)? Right now I'm looking at the red diskette case beside my computer. My perceptual state possesses a certain reddish qualitative character. What explains that feature of my perceptual state? "...1997 Joseph Levine Consciousness Located: You'll Wonder Where the Yellow Went. Psycoloquy: 8(04)
- 1994. Daniel Dennett, Get Real, in Philosophical Topics, vol. 22, no. 1 & 2, Spring & Fall 1994, pp. 505-568 https://web.archive.org/web/20070715205004/http://cogprints.org/280/00/getreal.htm
Forms of qualophile
| plural | qualophiles |
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Origin of qualophile
From quale + -o- + -phile.
Questions about qualophile
- What does qualophile mean?
- Qualophile means a cognitive scientist who endorses qualia as being unmeasurable by heterophenomenology.
- What part of speech is qualophile?
- Qualophile is a noun.
- What is the plural of qualophile?
- The plural of qualophile is qualophiles.
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