注意与表征主义

Attention and Representationism

表征主义认为经验的现象性特征可以由其表征内容得到说明。布洛克援引心理学中卡拉斯科等人关于隐性注意会改变经验现象性的实验结果对表征主义提出了独断性论证。文章将考察两种有代表性的对该论证给予回应的理论:注意—指示理论以及不确定解释理论;通过分析指出这两种理论都不能实现对表征主义的辩护,同时也指出布洛克的独断性论证本身也并非一个很强的论证。

Representationism argues that phenomenal character can be explained by its representational content. But N. Block presents an arbitrary argument to question representationism by citing Carassco et al＇s experimental findings. This article will consider two responses to the argument： the attention-index view and the indeterminative view, and will show that neither of these two theories is a good defense of representionism, and will also points out that Block＇s argument in fact is a weak argument.