The Problem of Qualia and Knowledge in Plato and Aristotle

• 作者: Husein Inusah Peter Sena Gawu
• 来源期刊: 哲学研究:英文版
• 学科: 哲学
• 关键词: PLATO ARISTOTLE QUALIA RELEVANCE KNOWLEDGE SENSE data
• 年，卷（期）: zxyjywb_2019,（8）
• 页码范围: 462-467
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: B

摘要

This paper sparks the debate of qualia and knowledge in the works of Plato and Aristotle. The debate on the relevance and logical chronology of qualia and knowledge has been an implicit tension in the works of Plato and Aristotle. However, we seldom find scholars exploring these aspects of Plato-Aristotle philosophy and connecting it to the contemporary debate of qualia. It is on this account that this paper re-examines Plato and Aristotle’s debate on the relevance of qualia to knowledge and how this debate has influenced theories relating to sense data. The core objective of this paper is to resurrect the debate of qualia and knowledge in the works of the legends as a way of contributing to the contemporary problem of qualia as suggested by Clarence I. Lewis and others in mid-20th century.