Summer School 2024参加者で後期公募班の Francesco Elliaさんと領域代表土谷さんのQualia Structure についての共著論文が Trends in Cognitive Sciences に掲載されました。これは、2025年9月にプレプリントとして公開した opinion 論文です。

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論文情報

著者名： Francesco Ellia and Naotsugu Tsuchiya

タイトル： Explanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness science

Journal：   Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2026

ISSN：1364-6613

DOI：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2026.03.005

Abstract: 

 Contemporary consciousness science faces an impasse: competing theoretical frameworks—structuralist versus functionalist, universal versus local, intrinsic versus extrinsic—appear to be inducing philosophical deadlocks and conceptual standstills. While these debates have generated valuable insights, they have proceeded in parallel, without a systematic framework for understanding their relationships and implications. We contend that these parallel disputes reflect deeper, unresolved tensions in the conceptualization of consciousness. These debates can be addressed by recognizing three fundamental dimensions that encompass models of consciousness at a meta-theoretical level: explanatory medium, scope, and perspective. We show the interplay among different dimensions and how they mutually condition evidence, language, and concepts, reframing theoretical conflicts into tractable disagreements.

Keywords: 

consciousness; theories of consciousness; functions; structures; universality