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What is the Relation Between an Experience, the Subject of the Experience, and the Content of the Experience?
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Abstract This chapter takes 'content' in a natural internalist way to refer to occurrent mental content. It introduces a 'thin' or 'live' notion of the subject according to which a subject of experience cannot exist unless there is an experience for it to be the subject of. The chapter then argues, first, that in the case of a particular experience E, its content C, and its (thin) subject S, [C ↔ E ↔ S]; and, second, that the metaphysical fact that underlies this (strong modal) equivalence is in fact identity: [E = S = C]. The chapter suggests that the effort of thought required to grasp this is deeply revealing of the nature of reality. On the way, the chapter raises a doubt about the viability of the traditional object/property distinction.
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- Authors
- Strawson, G.
- Corresponding author
- Strawson, Galen
- ORCID
- Strawson, Galen
- Venue
- Real Materialism
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2008-05-29
- Pages
- 151-188
- OpenAlex
- W4242126143
- Cited by
- 22
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- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 11 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 1.10
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
- Keywords
- experience, subject of experience, mental content, internalism, nature of reality
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