... partisan, in the sense of espousing an
exclusive approach to questions about the mind in general –
An introduction to the philosophy of mind3 4
is debatable whether, whenever one event causes another,
there ... stimulation
Contents
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1Introduction1
Empiricalpsychologyandphilosophicalanalysis2
Metaphysicsandthephilosophyofmind3
Abriefguidetotherestofthisb...
... philosophical analysis of
the concept of seeing: but each will have more credibility to
the extent that it is consistent with the other.
METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
The philosophy of mind is not ... broad
sense to embrace any kind of sensation, perception or
thought. This agreed, we can say that the philosophy of mind
is the philosophical s...
... whether
An introduction to the philosophy of mind8 2
content of John’s belief that snow is white. It would be wrong
for us – and wrong for John – to say that the inhabitants of
the distant planet ... Press,
1975).
An introduction to the philosophy of mind9 0
ence between beliefs and desires is often described as a dif-
ference in their ‘direction of fit’ w...
... experience the tang of lemon, the whiff
of woodsmoke, the colour of ripe tomatoes, or the sting of a
nettle. And the issue raised here by the absent qualia argu-
ment is whether the existence of such ... states of consciousness
to other human beings, so that to deny consciousness to the
hypothetical pile of pebbles in the circumstances envisaged
would be...
... relative to one another – things such as the colour
and shape of the tree and of the house, the intervening
ground between them, the sky behind them, and other
objects in their vicinity (together ... to divide one’s attention in a
way which seems to be psychologically impossible. From the
point of view of the causal theory, then, it is easy enough to
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THE CHARACTER OF MIND
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... if there are any); they believe that he is the creator of moral and other
sorts of value for us; they believe that he has revealed himself to us; and they
believe that he offers us the hope of ... left of the main entrance. It’s an
approximately life-size second-century ad Roman depiction of Apollo, standing
up with the remains of an arrow in one hand and—one presume...
... form the basis of the study and also to analyze the data
provided by the diagnostic test.
The results of the test are presented in 5 tables, all of which are the result of the five
parts of the ... (1980:166),
error analysis is the process to observe, analyze, and classify the deviations of the
rules of the second language and then to reveal the...
... added to give a total plasmid concentration of
1 mg per well. The figures in the bottom row are means of two
independent replicates and represent densitometric values normalized
to the intensity of ... outcome of
mRNA expression studies and reporter gene assays.
In addition to the identification of Smad 3 and 4 as
regulators of SeP expression, we were able to demonst...