What is it like to be HOT?

• Autor(a) principal: Pérez, Diana I.
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Argumentos : Revista de Filosofia (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufc.br/argumentos/article/view/19082
• topic: Philosophy of mind. Brentano. Higher order theory of consciousness. Consciousness.; Filosofia da mente. Brentano. Teoria de ordem superior da consciência. Consciência.

In a recent paper, Fisette tries to show that Brentano’s theory of consciousness can be considered as a higher order theory of consciousness (HOT), and a better one than Rosenthal’s because Brentano — unlike Rosenthal — can answer all the objections traditionally posed to HOT theories, introducing the idea of self-consciousness and the distinction between implicit and explicit consciousness. In this paper, I will first reconstruct Fisette’s main points, and then I pose some questions to his version of Brentano ́s theory. Finally I add some further reasons to reject higher order theories of consciousness.