Browsing by Author "Liu, Michelle"

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    • Explaining the Intuition of Revelation 

      Liu, Michelle (2020-01-01)
      This commentary focuses on explaining the intuition of revelation, an issue that Chalmers (2018) raises in his paper. I first sketch how the truth of revelation provides an explanation for the intuition of revelation, and ...

    • The Intuitive Invalidity of the Pain-in-Mouth Argument 

      Liu, Michelle (2020-05-18)
      In a recent paper, Reuter, Sienhold and Sytsma (2019) put forward an implicature account to explain the intuitive failure of the pain-in-mouth argument. They argue that utterances such as ‘there is tissue damage/a pain/an ...

    • Mental Imagery and Poetry 

      Liu, Michelle (2023-03-01)
      Poetry evokes mental imagery in its readers. But how is mental imagery precisely related to poetry? This article provides a systematic treatment. It clarifies two roles of mental imagery in relation to poetry—as an effect ...

    • Mental Imagery and Polysemy Processing 

      Liu, Michelle (2022-06-01)
      Recent research in psycholinguistics suggests that language processing frequently involves mental imagery. This paper focuses on visual imagery and discusses two issues regarding the processing of polysemous words (i.e. ...

    • Mental simulation and language comprehension: The case of copredication 

      Liu, Michelle (2023-06-19)
      Empirical evidence suggests that perceptual‐motor simulations are often constitutively involved in language comprehension. Call this “the simulation view of language comprehension”. This article applies the simulation view ...

    • Pain and Spatial Inclusion: Evidence from Mandarin 

      Liu, Michelle; Klein, Colin (2020-04)
      The surface grammar of reports such as ‘I have a pain in my leg’ suggests that pains are objects which are spatially located in parts of the body. We show that the parallel construction is not available in Mandarin. Further, ...

    • Pain, Paradox, and Polysemy 

      Liu, Michelle (2021-07-05)
      The paradox of pain refers to the idea that the folk concept of pain is paradoxical, treating pains as simultaneously mental states and bodily states (e.g. Hill 2005, 2017; Borg et al. 2020). By taking a close look at our ...

    • Paintings of Music 

      Liu, Michelle (2022-03-07)
      Paintings of music are a significant presence in modern art. They are cross-modal representations, aimed at representing music, say, musical works or forms, using colours, lines and shapes in the visual modality. This paper ...

    • Phenomenal Experience and the Thesis of Revelation 

      Liu, Michelle (Routledge, 2019-04-29)
      In the philosophy of mind, revelation is the claim that the nature of qualia is revealed in phenomenal experience. In the literature, revelation is often thought of as intuitive but in tension with physicalism. While ...

    • The Polysemy View of Pain 

      Liu, Michelle (2023-02-28)
      Philosophers disagree about what the folk concept of pain is. This aricle criticises existing theories of the folk concept of pain, that is, the mental view, the bodily view, and the recently proposed polyeidic view. It ...

    • Qualities and the Galilean View 

      Liu, Michelle (2021-09-28)
      It is often thought that sensible qualities such as colours do not exist as properties of physical objects. Focusing on the case of colour, I discuss two views: the Galilean view, according to which colours do not exist ...

    • Revelation and the Intuition of Dualism 

      Liu, Michelle (2021-07-02)
      In recent literature on the metaphysics of consciousness, and in particular on the prospects of physicalism, there are two interesting strands of discussion. One strand concerns the so-called ‘thesis of revelation’, the ...

    • X-Phi and the challenge from ad hoc concepts 

      Liu, Michelle (2023-05-03)
      Ad hoc concepts feature prominently in lexical pragmatics. A speaker can use a word or phrase to communicate an ad hoc concept that is different from the lexically encoded concept and the hearer can construct the intended ...