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Michael V Antony

Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel antony@research.haifa.ac.il.

1 paper in the library · publishing 2004

Papers

Sidestepping the semantics of "consciousness".

The Behavioral and brain sciences April 1, 2004 Michael V Antony

The author critiques Block's claim that the term "consciousness" is ambiguous between phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness, arguing that the nature of ambiguity itself is unclear and that the conflation of these two concepts can be explained without assuming ambiguity. By avoiding controversial semantic issues, Block's argument could be strengthened.