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9 papers in the library · 195 citations · publishing 2009-2026
Mind September 24, 2026 Clare Mac Cumhaill
Abstract: Anscombe’s 1947 report to the Mary Somerville Fellowship Committee shows that she had engaged with some (then) contemporary empirical work on psychokinesis—parapsychological research that Wittgenstein was also aware of. I first show that this critical engagement shaped her treatment of action in Intention. Human intentional action is essentially ‘at a distance’ or at scale. I then...
Mind 2020 W. Lycan
This sequel to Lycan's Consciousness (1987) continues the elaboration of his general functionalist theory of consciousness, answers the critics of his earlier work, and expands the range of discussion to deal with the many new issues and arguments that have arisen in the intervening years -- an extraordinarily fertile period for the philosophical investigation of consciousness.Lycan not only...
Mind July 18, 2017 Richard Gaskin 10 citations
Abstract It is often held to be definitive of consciousness that there is something it is like to be in a conscious state. A consensus has arisen that ‘is like’ in relevant ‘what it is like’ locutions does not mean ‘resembles’. This paper argues that the consensus is mistaken. It is argued that a recently proposed ‘affective’ analysis of these locutions fails, but that a purported rival of the...
Mind July 1, 2011 Akkelies van Nes
William Fish's book defends a naive realist view of veridical visual experience, a disjunctivist account of hallucination, and a mixed view of illusion, combining elements of his accounts of veridical experience and hallucination. Its core thesis is that the phenomenal character of any visual experience — in so far as it has one — consists in being acquainted with mind-independent facts. Fish's...
Mind April 1, 2011 Josh Weisberg 3 citations
The idea that conscious states are about both the world and themselves is an old one, tracing its roots back to Brentano and perhaps even as far back as Aristotle. There is, according to this picture, an intrinsic reflexiveness at the heart of conscious experience. In his important and provocative book Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory, Uriah Kriegel approaches this...
Mind April 1, 2011 Jay F. Levine 1 citation
In Consciousness, Christopher Hill presents a comprehensive theory of consciousness. He provides an account of perceptual consciousness, introspective consciousness, conscious thought, and along the way addresses numerous issues that have come up in the literature concerning conscious experience. Not only does he cover pretty much all the issues a theory of consciousness ought to address, he...
Mind October 1, 2010 Andy Clark 15 citations
The Bounds of Cognition, by Frederick Adams and Kenneth Aizawa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Pp. xiii + 197. H/b £50.00/$78.95, P/b £19.99/$29.95. Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, by Robert D. Rupert. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 268. H/b £37.50/$55.00, P/b £18.99/$29.95. Where in physical space lies the machinery of mind and cognition? Is mind all ‘in...
Mind October 1, 2009 Andy Clark 165 citations
Is consciousness all in the head, or might the minimal physical substrate for some forms of conscious experience include the goings on in the (rest of the) body and the world? Such a view might be dubbed (by analogy with Clark and Chalmers’s (1998) claims concerning ‘the extended mind’) ‘the extended conscious mind’. In this article, I review a variety of arguments for the extended conscious...
Mind July 1, 2009 Pauliina Remes 1 citation
This is a study of one of the levels, or hypostases, in the Neoplatonist Plotinus’ metaphysical hierarchy, the Intellect (Nous). Yet, a reader coming to it with the expectation of finding an inclusive study of this part of his metaphysics might well be slightly disappointed. This is because the book’s actual topic is ideally perfect thinking. For Plotinus, just as for Aristotle, metaphysics is...