Realism about consciousness conjoins a claim that consciousness exists with a claim that the existence is independent in some interesting sense. Consciousness realism so conceived may thus be opposed by a variety of anti-realisms, distinguished from each other by denying the first, the second, or both of the realist’s defining claims. I argue that Dennett’s view of consciousness is best read as an anti-realism that affirms the existence of consciousness while denying an important independence claim.
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Mandik, P. (2015). Conscious-State anti-realism. In Content and Consciousness Revisited (pp. 185–197). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17374-0_10
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