@misc{cogprints4748, volume = {2006}, editor = {Prof. Dr. Shaun Gallagher}, title = {'Reflexive Monism' versus 'Complementarism': An analysis and criticism of the conceptual groundwork of Max Velmans's 'reflexive model' of consciousness}, author = {Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Hoche}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2006}, journal = {Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences}, keywords = {Consciousness, mind-body problem, complementarity, dual-aspect theory, phenomenology, psychophysical causation, pure noematics, reflexive monism, Velmans. }, url = {http://cogprints.org/4748/}, abstract = {From 1990 on, the London psychologist Max Velmans developed a novel approach to (phenomenal) consciousness according to which an experience of an object is phenomenologically identical to an object as experienced. On the face of it I agree; but unlike Velmans I argue that the latter should be understood as comparable, not to a Kantian, but rather to a noematic ?phenomenon? in the Husserlian sense. Consequently, I replace Velmans?s reflexive model with a complementaristic approach in a strict sense which leaves no room for either monistic or dualistic views (including Velmans?s ontological monism and his dual-aspect interpretation of complementarity) and hence requires us to radically reinterpret the concept of psychophysical causation. } }