Hochstein, Eric (2019) Learning to Appreciate the Gray Areas: A Critical Notice of Anil Gupta’s “Conscious Experience”. [Preprint]
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Anil Gupta’s Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry is an impressive piece of philosophical work. By way of a logical inquiry into the nature of conscious experience, Gupta provides a novel account of rational justification which can be used as a foundation for a new theory of empiricism. In this Critical Notice, I argue that Gupta’s project is fascinating, but is often hampered by a lack of sufficient philosophical justification and clarity regarding some essential features of his project, as well as a lack of engagement with relevant scientific domains that would directly bear on his project, such as computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive psychology. I argue that by ignoring the conceptual tools and resources provided by these domains, Gupta limits the sorts of logical inquiry available to him in problematic ways.
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