What is it about?
Noting that Peirce was the first to theorize qualia, and that he theorized them specifically as Firsts, this chapter in Feeling Extended attempts to build common ground between qualia and emotional interpretants--and to show how both are shared from person to person.
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Why is it important?
Daniel Dennett famously "quines" qualia--denies that they exist--because they seem to him ephemeral, subjective, will-o-the-wisps. By connecting them to Peircean interpretants, and both to social regulation, this chapter explores the larger significance of qualia.
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This one is a tough sell, I think. It's easy to dismiss my argument without giving it too much thought. As cognitive science moves more and more into the realm of affect theory, however, it seems to me that we will need to pay more attention to arguments like mine.
Professor Douglas J. Robinson
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
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This page is a summary of: Qualia as Interpretants, August 2013, The MIT Press,
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262019477.003.0005.
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