Resumen de Concept-aspects and the Specification of Cognitive Phenomenology
When we consciously think a thought or entertain a certain proposition we undergo a certain experience. The phenomenal character involved in such an episode is an instance of cognitive phenomenology, at least in the sense that there is some phenomenal character in the episode of conscious thought. Controversies arise with respect to the nature of such cognitive phenomenology, whether it is specifically cognitive or it is reducible to more familiar kinds of phenomenologies, such as the sensory or emotional one. In this paper I examine an objection against the specificity thesis, based on a fundamental asymmetry between the cognitive and the perceptual/emotional domain and I sketch a a proposal for the specification of cognitive phenomenology that responds to it and at the same is a defense of a specific cognitive phenomenology.
