Subjecthood transparency.
In recent work Philip Goff has defended the thesis of subjecthood transparency : someone possessing the concept 'subjecthood' is thereby in a position to know, a priori, what it is for an entity to be a subject of experiences. Kevin Morris has criticized a specific argument that Goff provides for su...
| Published in: | Analysis Vol. 84; no. 3; pp. 504 - 512 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2024
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| Summary: | In recent work Philip Goff has defended the thesis of subjecthood transparency : someone possessing the concept 'subjecthood' is thereby in a position to know, a priori, what it is for an entity to be a subject of experiences. Kevin Morris has criticized a specific argument that Goff provides for subjecthood transparency. I will argue that Morris's criticism of Goff's argument does not succeed. I will then present an alternative criticism of Goff's argument, one that also applies to the thesis of subjecthood transparency itself. |
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