Vol. 24 No. 2 (2004)
Artículos y notas

Por qué el problema del hiato explicativo es realmente un problema para el fisicismo

Published 2004-11-01

Keywords

  • Conciencia fenoménica,
  • Identidades psicofísicas,
  • Dualismo de propiedades
  • Phenomenal consciousness,
  • Psychophysical identities,
  • Dualism of properties

Abstract

In this paper I explore compatibilism, the view that the claim that there is an explanatory gap between the phenomenal and the physical is compatible with an overall physicalist metaphysics. I argue that the property dualism argument is an incompatibilist argument which is stronger than the Jackson-Chalmers argument or Kripke's argument and I critically explore some recent attempts in the literature to deal with it. The conclusion is that a compatibilist view, one able to cope with the property dualism argument, is still pending.