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Sensorimotor theory, cognitive access and the 'absolute' explanatory gap
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Abstract
Sensorimotor Theory (SMT) is the claim that it is our practical know-how of the relations between our environments and us that gives our environmental interactions their experiential qualities. Yet why should such interactions involve or be accompanied by experience? This is the 'absolute' gap question. Some proponents of SMT answer this question by arguing that our interactions with an environment involve experience when we cognitively access those interactions. In this paper, I aim to persuade proponents of SMT to accept the following three claims. First, that appeals to cognitive access fail to answer the absolute gap question. Second, that SMT can be read in a way that rejects the gap question. Third, that if proponents of SMT are prepared to read SMT in a way that rejects the absolute gap question, then they can also reject the claim that cognitive access is needed to explain experience.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences. - Dordrecht, 2002, currens
Publication
Dordrecht : 2018
ISSN
1568-7759 [print]
1572-8676 [online]
DOI
10.1007/S11097-017-9543-X
Volume/pages
17 :3 (2018) , p. 611-627
ISI
000434854800011
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Last edited 02.10.2024
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