Plastik Sanatlarda Qualia Nosyonu

Abstract

In the present thesis titled as “the Notion of Qualia in the Plastic Arts”, proposes a perspective with personal art practices on qualia as a fundamental philosophical problem. In line with a research that combines the fields of plastic arts and philosophy of mind, the possibilities of meaning of qualia, which is visible in the artworks are investigated. The necessity of establishing a dialogue between art and philosophy, which are two separate cultural fields in order to make sense of personal art practices is made possible by the image as the conveys of thought. The way of explain the meaning of the image in the artwork, indicates a perceptual difference between the object and the image. Basically, this difference is the notion of qualia, which is directly related to perception as a subjective cognitive faculty. Accordingly, qualia is used as an epistemological method to create a personal plastic language. The act here is the insertion of a subjective reality into the artwork. The notion of qualia is examined and discussed in relation to artworks within a narrow framework of qualia property dualism and physicalism. The thesis is a record of personal artistic practices.