From 'Consciousness' to 'I Think, I Feel, I Know' A Commentary on David Chalmers

dc.contributor.authorWierzbicka, Anna
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-10T03:25:25Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-01
dc.date.updated2020-07-06T08:28:22Z
dc.description.abstractDavid Chalmers appears to assume that we can meaningfully discuss what goes on in human heads without paying any attention to the words in which we couch our statements. This paper challenges this assumption and argues that the initial problem is that of metalanguage: if we want to say something clear and valid about us humans, we must think about ourselves outside conceptual English created by one particular history and culture and try to think from a global, panhuman point of view. This means that instead of relying on untranslatable English words such as 'consciousness' and 'experience' we must try to rely on panhuman concepts expressed in cross-translatable words such as THINK, KNOW, and FEEL (Wierzbicka, 2018). The paper argues that after 'a hundred years of consciousness studies' it is time to fry to say something about us (humans), about how we think and how we differ from cats and bats, in words that are clear, stable, and human rather than parochially English.en_AU
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dc.identifier.issn1355-8250en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/214760
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherImprint Academicen_AU
dc.rights© 2019 Imprint Academicen_AU
dc.sourceJournal of Consciousness Studiesen_AU
dc.source.urihttps://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2019/00000026/f0020009/art00022#en_AU
dc.titleFrom 'Consciousness' to 'I Think, I Feel, I Know' A Commentary on David Chalmersen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue9-10en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage269en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage257en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationWierzbicka, Anna, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu7300787@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidWierzbicka, Anna, u7300787en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor220319 - Social Philosophyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970122 - Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studiesen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5786633xPUB2064en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume26en_AU
local.identifier.thomsonIDWOS:000489245000021
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu5786633en_AU
local.publisher.urlwww.imprint.co.uken_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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