Will Sharp

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Department of Philosophy
Doctoral researcher

Contact details

PhD title: How to think about perceptual phenomenal character
Supervisors: Professor Scott SturgeonDr Maja Spener and Dr Henry Taylor
PhD Philosophy

Qualifications

  • MPhilStud King’s College London
  • MA Philosophy, Texas State University

Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant at Kings College London and the University of Birmingham
  • Adjunct lecturer at University of The Incarnate Word, Texas State University

Research

I argue that we have no reason to believe perceptual phenomenal character, minimally construed, exists. I also argue, borrowing from surprising findings from cognitive neuroscience of color experience, that a pair of mainstream philosophic theses of perceptual experience are not extensionally adequate.