3 papers in the library · 3 citations · publishing 1999-2004
Behavioral and Brain Sciences April 1, 2004 Gerard O'Brien, Jonathan P. Opie
Abstract Martínez-Manrique contends that we overlook a possible nonconnectionist vehicle theory of consciousness. We argue that the position he develops is better understood as a hybrid vehicle/process theory. We assess this theory and in doing so clarify the commitments of both vehicle and process theories of consciousness.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences October 1, 2001 Gerard O'Brien, Jon Opie 3 citations
O'Regan & Noë (O&N) fail to address adequately the two most historically important reasons for seeking to explain visual experience in terms of internal representations. They are silent about the apparently inferential nature of perception, and mistaken about the significance of the phenomenology accompanying dreams, hallucinations, and mental imagery.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences October 1, 1999 Gerard O'Brien, Jonathan P. Opie
Dienes & Perner offer us a theory of explicit and implicit knowledge that promises to systematise a large and diverse body of research in cognitive psychology. Their advertised strategy is to unpack this distinction in terms of explicit and implicit representation. But when one digs deeper one finds the “Higher-Order Thought” theory of consciousness doing much of the work. This reduces both the...