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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Mental Content"”.
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Causal efficacy and externalist mental content
Internalism about mental content is the view that microphysical duplicates must be mental duplicates as well. This dissertation develops and defends the idea that only a strong version of internalism is compatible with our commonsense commitment to mental causation. Chapter one defends a novel …
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Content and Concept: An Examination of Transcendental Empiricism
… is, among other things, a philosophy of mental content. It attempts to dissolve an epistemological dilemma of mental content by splitting the difference between two diametrically opposed accounts of content. John McDowell's minimal empiricism and Richard Gaskin's minimalist empiricism are …
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THE PERSISTENCE OF INDETERMINACY: CONTEMPORARY THEORIES AND KRIPKENSTEIN'S CHALLENGE TO REPRESENTATIONAL CONTENT
… with the foundations of representational content. There is a familiar feature of words, sentences, beliefs, and perceptions: they are about, or mean, or represent something. The sentence “cats are cute” is about cats being cute, and my belief that cats are cute is also about cats being …
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Imagination, content, and the self
… this topic can teach us about the nature of mental content -- in particular, about the content of de se and de re thoughts. Second, I want to formulate an account of this distinction which will help us understand the role these two types of imagining play in philosophical thought experiments …
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In Favor of Teleosemantics: A Millikanian Treatment of the Intentional Content of Mental Representation
<p>Theoretical attempts to naturalize mental contents, that is, to explain how wholly physical organisms manage to represent the external world to themselves, are mostly conducted in accordance with causal-informational and/or functionalist approaches based on nomic physical correlations. In 1984, …
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Etiological teleosemantics and theories of nonconceptual content
… thought and its objects refers to ‘intentional content’, the information conveyed by mental states to a subject. A broad and intuitive distinction has standardly been made between two kinds of intentional content; ‘conceptual content’ is that conveyed by states of rational reflection (such as …
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Seeing and Perceptual Content
… <em>determinacy</em> (the view that perceptual content is relatively determinate). I challenge both of these assumptions, and develop a new approach to perceptual content, with implications for theories of mental content more broadly. In chapter one, I address the question of whether, in …
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Perceptual Expectation
… I am trying to figure out what sort of mental state a perceptual expectation like this is, from the angle of both its content (noun-phrase, singular-when-filled, perceptual) and its functional profile (uses content from memory, contributes content to occurrent perception, dispositionally …
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… have with animals. These are a relation of instrumentalism, paternalism, and companionism, respectively. Such relations rest along a spectrum, but I will argue that companionism is the ideal. After making and defending such conceptual distinctions between human-animal relations, the next chapter …
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… have with animals. These are a relation of instrumentalism, paternalism, and companionism, respectively. Such relations rest along a spectrum, but I will argue that companionism is the ideal. After making and defending such conceptual distinctions between human-animal relations, the next chapter …
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Perception and Nonconceptual Apprehension
… I then offer a substantive account of perceptual content that both respects its non-belief-like: nonconceptual) character and explains its ability to provide us reasons.
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EXPLORING DREAMING CONSCIOUSNESS FROM AN ENACTIVIST PERSPECTIVE
… waking experiences: 1) the absurdity in dream content and 2) the partial lack of self-awareness during dreaming states. This enactivist account of dreaming experiences is also proposed as a helpful philosophical account to inspire corresponding improvements in the method of collection, as well …