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Awful noises: evaluativism and the affective phenomenology of unpleasant auditory experience

Published:2020-09-17 Issue:7 Volume:178 Page:2133-2150
ISSN:0031-8116
Container-title:Philosophical Studies
language:en
Short-container-title:Philos Stud

Author:

Roberts Tom^ORCID

Abstract

AbstractAccording to the evaluativist theory of bodily pain, the overall phenomenology of a painful experience is explained by attributing to it two types of representational content—an indicative content that represents bodily damage or disturbance, and an evaluative content that represents that condition as bad for the subject. This paper considers whether evaluativism can offer a suitable explanation of aversive auditory phenomenology—the experience of awful noises—and argues that it can only do so by conceding that auditory evaluative content would be guilty of widespread error. Defending such an error-theory, moreover, comes with several explanatory costs.

Funder

University of Exeter

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Philosophy

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11098-020-01527-7.pdf

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