The nature of consciousness, qualia, and the mind-body problem
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Belief conceptualism is true
If soul and body are absolutely opposed to one another, then there is no possibility of any community between them.
It cannot be ruled out that the soul is extended.
McDowell's argument fails
Physicalism is false
"I" does not function like a demonstrative
A being endowed with senses of both smell and hearing would experience itself as having a double existence.
A being experiencing smells and sounds would not necessarily experience itself as being two distinct things or substances at once.
A blurry experience loses some of the content that would be represented by a sharper experience of the exact same scene
A capacity to represent the world as law-governed must be exercised actively by the mind, not received passively.
A causal analysis of experiences being 'of' objects fails to account for conscious experience of those objects
A classical computer does not genuinely understand language or meaning.
A cognitive architecture that collapses distinctive attitudes (imagination and belief) on the basis of borderline cases is unlikely to be fruitful in explaining psychological phenomena
A cognitive power cannot advance to a cognitive action unless it actually tends toward the object.
A complete theory of perception requires specifying the type of sensory connection involved between perceiver and perceived object
A composing synthesis is required for our representation of space as a whole, not only for representations of determinate parts of space
A computational system malfunctions when it does not behave consistently with its specifications
A concept offers no barrier between the conceiving mind and the conceived object.
A connectionist model of a psychological phenomenon captures, in an idealized way, how interconnected neurons might generate that phenomenon.
A consistent folk psychological theory cannot be extracted by uncritically collecting common sense platitudes
A cosmological perspective must supplement, but cannot replace, the personalist framework for understanding the human being.
A creature we cannot interpret as capable of meaningful speech cannot be interpreted as capable of possessing contentful attitudes
A defence of the claim that perfect hallucinations and genuine perceptions are events of the same fundamental kind cannot rest solely on the fact that they are introspectively indiscriminible
A demonstrative pronoun is a disguised categorematic term, and the mental correlate of 'This man runs' is 'The man Socrates runs'
A failure of self-knowledge is essential to self-deception.
A feeling of sadness upon seeing another's sad face counts as genuinely empathic only if the subject recognizes that the sadness is focused on the other and is not a reaction to aspects of the subject's own life.
A full explanation of the cohabitation of spirit and body in human beings requires transcending the physical realm
A fully adequate account of consciousness cannot be captured in words
A function-based psychosemantics can distinguish the representata of the two eyes
A functional deficit hypothesis must satisfy four adequacy conditions.
knowledge
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
consciousness
A dynamic process characterized by self-transforming flow, intentional coherence, and semantic self-understanding, rather than a static or momentary state.
phenomenology
The study of phenomena: what appears to us and its appearing
Representations
Mental images, ideas, or thoughts that stand in for things in the world—essentially, how your mind depicts or understands reality.
functionalism
The view that mental states are defined by the causal roles they play in a cognitive system — their actual, potential, or typical causal relationships.
mental states
Conditions consisting in forces that manifest themselves in people's bodily behavior, conceptually tied to corresponding types of bodily behavior but not reducible thereto
epistemology
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
phenomenal character
The qualitative, subjective 'what it is like' aspect of mental states; the property of having qualia
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