Constructivism for Consciousness

Halpin, John F. (2026) Constructivism for Consciousness. [Preprint] Abstract The goal of this essay is to promote a non- traditional physicalism for consciousness much as metaethical constructivisms are meant as naturalistic alternatives to traditional moral realism. The account on offer is based on perspectival version of David Lewis's Humean “best- system” account for scientific representation. On this version, suspect concepts are vindicated (from the perspective of a given science) when...