An epistemology for phenomenology?

Ruth Garrett Millikan

pp. 13-26

in: Richard S. BROWN (ed), Consciousness inside and out, Berlin, Springer, 2014

Abstract

There is a tendency to assimilate so called "consciousness studies' to studies of the phenomenology of experience, and it seems to me that this is a shame. It is a shame, I think, because there is no such thing as a legitimate phenomenology of experience whereas there certainly is such a thing as consciousness. So long as people assimilate studies of consciousness to studies of phenomenal experience, they are side stepping the real issues – the ones for another lifetime.