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The author or concept searched is found in the following 1 entries.
Disputed term/author/ism Author
Entry
Reference
Qualia Shoemaker Stalnaker I 220
Qualia/common sense/Shoemaker: Thesis: Qualia are internal, intrinsic, but also locally comparable. >Intrinsicness, >Internalism, >Localization, >Comparability.
VsFrege-Schlick view.
> href="https://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=258485&a=t&first_name=Robert&author=Stalnaker&concept=Qualia">Qualia/Stalnaker. Comparability/Shoemaker: Thesis: Qualia are not comparable, because it is meaningless to assume that e.g. inverted spectra represent at all something communicable.
StalnakerVsShoemaker: per "old-fashioned" Frege-Schlick view.
>Inverted spectra.

Shoemaker I
S. Shoemaker
Identity, Cause, and Mind: Philosophical Essays Expanded Edition 2003


Stalnaker I
R. Stalnaker
Ways a World may be Oxford New York 2003

The author or concept searched is found in the following controversies.
Disputed term/author/ism Author Vs Author
Entry
Reference
Frege, G. Nagel Vs Frege, G. III 107
Psychology/Nagel: it is characteristic for psychological terms that we imagine they could be separated from the objective side effects! E.g. the question whether sugar tastes for other people like "this here" is a perfectly well-defined question! Even if it is unanswerable! ((s) NagelVsFrege/NagelVsSchlick/ >Cresswell II "Frege-Schlick view")).

NagE I
E. Nagel
The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation Cambridge, MA 1979

Nagel I
Th. Nagel
The Last Word, New York/Oxford 1997
German Edition:
Das letzte Wort Stuttgart 1999

Nagel II
Thomas Nagel
What Does It All Mean? Oxford 1987
German Edition:
Was bedeutet das alles? Stuttgart 1990

Nagel III
Thomas Nagel
The Limits of Objectivity. The Tanner Lecture on Human Values, in: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values 1980 Vol. I (ed) St. M. McMurrin, Salt Lake City 1980
German Edition:
Die Grenzen der Objektivität Stuttgart 1991

NagelEr I
Ernest Nagel
Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science New York 1982

The author or concept searched is found in the following 4 theses of the more related field of specialization.
Disputed term/author/ism Author
Entry
Reference
Qualia Frege, G. Staln I 220
Qualia / common sense / Shoemaker: Thesis: qualia are internal, intrinsic, locally but also comparable. VsFrege-Schlick-view. Qualia / Frege-Schlick-view / Shoemaker: Thesis: qualia are not comparable, because it is meaningless to assume that e.g. exchanged spectra represent anything communicable.
  Interpersonal comparisons of phenomenal experience are meaningless.
Reversed Spectra Frege, G. Staln I 226
exchanged spectra / common sense / Stalnaker: qualitative properties are local and intrinsic properties of experiences.   Frege-Schlick view: qualitative properties are relational.
Qualia Schlick, M. Staln I 220
Qualia / common sense / Shoemaker: Qualia are internal, intrinsic - but also locally comparable. Against: Frege-Schlick-View: / Shoemaker: Thesis: qualia are not comparable, because it is meaningless to assume that e.g. exchanged spectra represent anything communicable.
  Interpersonal comparisons of phenomenal experience are meaningless.
Reversed Spektra Stalnaker, R. I 222
Reversed Spectra/Symmetry/Stalnaker: Suppose (as the thesis of the interchanged spectra does) that the relational structure is symmetric (in some way).
I 223
Shoemaker: that would be too easy. Thesis: he wants to reconcile interpersonal comparisons of Qualia with a functionalist approach. Although we cannot functionally define certain qualitative states, we can define classes of qualitative states as follows:
I 226
Reversed Spectra/common sense/Stalnaker: Thesis: qualitative properties are local and intrinsic properties of experiences. Frege-Schlick-View: Thesis: qualitative properties are relational.