Donald Davidson, Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective
... to evidence, at an intermediate stage, in the form of hold true attitudes (beliefs that sentences are true). Correlations of hold true attitudes with conditions in the environment provide tentative assignments of truth conditions which interpret the sentences held true (this is the operation of the ...
... to evidence, at an intermediate stage, in the form of hold true attitudes (beliefs that sentences are true). Correlations of hold true attitudes with conditions in the environment provide tentative assignments of truth conditions which interpret the sentences held true (this is the operation of the ...
Thesis Abstract
... account of the inner (the status of imagination, the objects of inquiry, their account of the inner sense, etc.), to which commentators generally failed to give appropriate attention. B. Two philosophical “pairs” (Locke & Reid vs. Berkeley & Hume) Although these philosophers exemplify notable diver ...
... account of the inner (the status of imagination, the objects of inquiry, their account of the inner sense, etc.), to which commentators generally failed to give appropriate attention. B. Two philosophical “pairs” (Locke & Reid vs. Berkeley & Hume) Although these philosophers exemplify notable diver ...
Why naturalize consciousness?
... consciousness will have negative results for the prospects for its scientific study. In what follows, central aspects of the philosophical debate over naturalizing consciousness are critically examined. The conclusion reached is that the debate is illfounded and neither anti-physicalist arguments no ...
... consciousness will have negative results for the prospects for its scientific study. In what follows, central aspects of the philosophical debate over naturalizing consciousness are critically examined. The conclusion reached is that the debate is illfounded and neither anti-physicalist arguments no ...
Logos, Ethos and Pathos
... of Athens." This masterpiece depicts an intellectual gathering of the great philosophers of classical times at a school called the Ancient Agora of Athens. The Agora remains standing today in Athens, Greece. The school served as an academic meeting place for the great philosophers of classical times ...
... of Athens." This masterpiece depicts an intellectual gathering of the great philosophers of classical times at a school called the Ancient Agora of Athens. The Agora remains standing today in Athens, Greece. The school served as an academic meeting place for the great philosophers of classical times ...
1 - PhilPapers
... philosophical scene who claims to know something about entities spatiotemporally isolated from us. Famously, it is also a practice of philosophers of mathematics to nontrivially consider the realm on (abstract) entities being in no relevant relation to us. They treat numbers, classes, sets or functi ...
... philosophical scene who claims to know something about entities spatiotemporally isolated from us. Famously, it is also a practice of philosophers of mathematics to nontrivially consider the realm on (abstract) entities being in no relevant relation to us. They treat numbers, classes, sets or functi ...
Kripke, A Priori Knowledge, Necessity and Contingency
... C2. Argument Two: Some a Priori Truths are Contingent Kripke uses the example of the standard meter stick in Paris (the one in the museum). 1. The King said (at some point), “Stick S at t (that one over there, right now) is one meter long”. 2. “Stick S is one meter long” is true. Claim One: the trut ...
... C2. Argument Two: Some a Priori Truths are Contingent Kripke uses the example of the standard meter stick in Paris (the one in the museum). 1. The King said (at some point), “Stick S at t (that one over there, right now) is one meter long”. 2. “Stick S is one meter long” is true. Claim One: the trut ...
A catalog of conscious experiences
... sensations stand out as the paradigm examples of conscious experience, due to their pure, seemingly ineffable qualitative nature. Some color experiences can seem particularly striking, and so can be particularly good at focusing our attention on the mystery of consciousness. In my environment now, t ...
... sensations stand out as the paradigm examples of conscious experience, due to their pure, seemingly ineffable qualitative nature. Some color experiences can seem particularly striking, and so can be particularly good at focusing our attention on the mystery of consciousness. In my environment now, t ...
Rene Descartes Handout #1 Historical
... 3. Therefore, if we know some proposition p, then there are no grounds for doubting p. C. Grounds for Doubt A ground for doubt, according to Descartes, will be any possible situation that raises a "question-mark" over the truth of a belief. And we must place a "question-mark" over any belief is if t ...
... 3. Therefore, if we know some proposition p, then there are no grounds for doubting p. C. Grounds for Doubt A ground for doubt, according to Descartes, will be any possible situation that raises a "question-mark" over the truth of a belief. And we must place a "question-mark" over any belief is if t ...
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
... us.6 (The problem is not confinedto exotic cases, however,forit exists between one person and another. The subjective character of the experience of a person deaf and blind from birth is not accessible to me, for example, nor presumably is mine to him. This does not prevent us each from believing th ...
... us.6 (The problem is not confinedto exotic cases, however,forit exists between one person and another. The subjective character of the experience of a person deaf and blind from birth is not accessible to me, for example, nor presumably is mine to him. This does not prevent us each from believing th ...
Animal and Machine Consciousness
... If we think of the question of “bat consciousness” as the subjectively engaged world (which includes the self) as experienced by a bat with its particular body, senses, and brain, and, perhaps, mind, then we are ready to turn to today’s topic, animal and machine consciousness. Once again I follow th ...
... If we think of the question of “bat consciousness” as the subjectively engaged world (which includes the self) as experienced by a bat with its particular body, senses, and brain, and, perhaps, mind, then we are ready to turn to today’s topic, animal and machine consciousness. Once again I follow th ...
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... changes (Olso and Zanna 1991). However, these judgments may provide more information than judgments from independent judges (as in the “human judges” method discussed in Section 3), because they are performed by the addressee of the argument, when the experience of the task is still vivid in her mem ...
... changes (Olso and Zanna 1991). However, these judgments may provide more information than judgments from independent judges (as in the “human judges” method discussed in Section 3), because they are performed by the addressee of the argument, when the experience of the task is still vivid in her mem ...
glossary of philosophical terms
... those that are true (or false) in virtue of the way the ideas or meanings in them fit together. A standard example is “No bachelor is married.” This is true simply in virtue of the meanings of the words. “No bachelor is happy,” on the other hand, is synthetic. It isn’t true or false just in virtue o ...
... those that are true (or false) in virtue of the way the ideas or meanings in them fit together. A standard example is “No bachelor is married.” This is true simply in virtue of the meanings of the words. “No bachelor is happy,” on the other hand, is synthetic. It isn’t true or false just in virtue o ...
The Hornswoggle Problem
... Copyright (c) Imprint Academic 2005 For personal use only -- not for reproduction ...
... Copyright (c) Imprint Academic 2005 For personal use only -- not for reproduction ...
Glossary - Oxford University Press
... of cause connects with other important notions, such as responsibility. We blame people for the harm they cause, not for things that just happened when they were in the vicinity. We assume that there is a cause when things go wrong—when airliners crash, or the climate changes, or the electricity goe ...
... of cause connects with other important notions, such as responsibility. We blame people for the harm they cause, not for things that just happened when they were in the vicinity. We assume that there is a cause when things go wrong—when airliners crash, or the climate changes, or the electricity goe ...
Phenomenology without conscious access is a form of
... project from the back to the front of cortex and their targets in the front that project back to the upper stages of the ventral pathway (possibly involving stages of the thalamus, such as the pulvinar [Crick & Koch 1998b], and the claustrum [Crick & Koch 2005]). The subject now consciously sees the ...
... project from the back to the front of cortex and their targets in the front that project back to the upper stages of the ventral pathway (possibly involving stages of the thalamus, such as the pulvinar [Crick & Koch 1998b], and the claustrum [Crick & Koch 2005]). The subject now consciously sees the ...
Review of Frank Jackson, From Metaphysics to Ethics: A
... If we accept reply (1), then we ground the openness of "is that right?" in the openness (for us today) of "is that mature folk morality?" Jackson occasonally talks as though this latter openness were a matter of ordinary descriptive ignorance about the future; we haven't got there yet, so we don't k ...
... If we accept reply (1), then we ground the openness of "is that right?" in the openness (for us today) of "is that mature folk morality?" Jackson occasonally talks as though this latter openness were a matter of ordinary descriptive ignorance about the future; we haven't got there yet, so we don't k ...
Philosophy 100 Lecture 12 Minds and bodies
... • Your body is physical and your mind is mental, so they are distinct. • Reincarnation and life after death… • Ghosts, angels, demons, astral projections, etc. – His brand of Dualism is known as Interactionism. • The Pineal gland… ...
... • Your body is physical and your mind is mental, so they are distinct. • Reincarnation and life after death… • Ghosts, angels, demons, astral projections, etc. – His brand of Dualism is known as Interactionism. • The Pineal gland… ...
LaRock
... Which is to say, once all of the structures and functions have been identified within a cognitive system, there appears to be a further question: why should conscious experience accompany such structures and functions in the first place? For the definitive formulation of the hard problem of consciou ...
... Which is to say, once all of the structures and functions have been identified within a cognitive system, there appears to be a further question: why should conscious experience accompany such structures and functions in the first place? For the definitive formulation of the hard problem of consciou ...
Chapter 8 - Barbara Gail Montero
... Will we ever solve the mind-body problem? Will we ever understand how the Dijin of consciousness arises out of entirely physical processes in the brain? Some philosophers—the Cartesian dualists from Chapter 2—say that we know the solution to the mind-body problem: the mind, including consciousness, ...
... Will we ever solve the mind-body problem? Will we ever understand how the Dijin of consciousness arises out of entirely physical processes in the brain? Some philosophers—the Cartesian dualists from Chapter 2—say that we know the solution to the mind-body problem: the mind, including consciousness, ...
Sartre-How Do We Get From Nothingnes to Freedom
... In Nausea, the hero, Roquentin, is fed up with life – it bores him. He has travelled the world, experienced the sights, sounds and sensual experiences that are to be had. He returns to a boring northern French town, based on pre-war Le Havre, to consider his position. Put prosaically, he is facing a ...
... In Nausea, the hero, Roquentin, is fed up with life – it bores him. He has travelled the world, experienced the sights, sounds and sensual experiences that are to be had. He returns to a boring northern French town, based on pre-war Le Havre, to consider his position. Put prosaically, he is facing a ...
Socratic Method.
... In general, most Christians are dualists. They hold that reality is divided into two parts. Our souls are eternal and non-material; our bodies, like the physical universe, are temporal and material. Plato's view of reality is often termed dualistic, that is, he saw reality "dual", divided into two p ...
... In general, most Christians are dualists. They hold that reality is divided into two parts. Our souls are eternal and non-material; our bodies, like the physical universe, are temporal and material. Plato's view of reality is often termed dualistic, that is, he saw reality "dual", divided into two p ...
Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Consciousness
... you have to include not just actual journey time, but also the mean time that is required to earn the money to pay for both the personal AND social costs of the means of travel; ...
... you have to include not just actual journey time, but also the mean time that is required to earn the money to pay for both the personal AND social costs of the means of travel; ...
Conscious Experience
... Today, the problem of consciousness - perhaps together with the question of the origin of the universe - inarks the very limit of human striving for understanding. It appears to many to be the last great puzzle and the greatest theoretical challenge of our time. A solution of this puzzle through emp ...
... Today, the problem of consciousness - perhaps together with the question of the origin of the universe - inarks the very limit of human striving for understanding. It appears to many to be the last great puzzle and the greatest theoretical challenge of our time. A solution of this puzzle through emp ...
Functionalism According to functionalism, the essential or defining
... functionalist is right to insist that the type-identity of our visual sensations be reckoned according to their functional role. But the objector is also right in insisting that a relative inversion of two people's qualia, without functional inversion, is entirely conceivable. The apparent inconsist ...
... functionalist is right to insist that the type-identity of our visual sensations be reckoned according to their functional role. But the objector is also right in insisting that a relative inversion of two people's qualia, without functional inversion, is entirely conceivable. The apparent inconsist ...
Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Consciousness: Continuum or
... There can be no such thing as a scientific morality. But neither can there be an immoral science. The reason for this is simple: it is – how shall I put it? – a purely grammatical matter. If the premises of a syllogism are both in the indicative, then the conclusion will equally be in the indicative ...
... There can be no such thing as a scientific morality. But neither can there be an immoral science. The reason for this is simple: it is – how shall I put it? – a purely grammatical matter. If the premises of a syllogism are both in the indicative, then the conclusion will equally be in the indicative ...