Peter Ross's Remarks on Grice's Remarks about the senses

Abstract:

"In his paper "Some Remarks about the Senses" H.P. Grice argues that our distinction among perceptual modalities requires that the modalities must be characterized in terms of the introspectable character of experience. I first show that Grice's argument provides support for the claim that perceptual experiences have 'qualia', namely, mental qualitative properties of experience which are what it is like to be conscious of perceived properties such as color. I then defend intentionalism about experience, which rejects 'qualia', by showing that we need not appeal to differences in 'qualia' in order to distinguish the senses. Rather, I claim that we can appeal to, among other factors, differences in the physical properties of physical objects which experience represents."