A psychofunctionalist argument against nonconceptualism

Justin Tiehen

pp. 3919-3934

in: Synthese 191 (16), 2014.

Abstract

In this paper I present a psychofunctionalist argument for conceptualism, the thesis that conscious visual experience is a conceptual state rather than a nonconceptual state. The argument draws on the holistic character of functionalist accounts of mind, together with the “Two Visual Systems Hypothesis” notably defended by Melvyn Goodale and David Milner.