Abstract Wilfrid Sellars once famously described philosophy as aiming to understand how things, in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term (Sellars, 1962, p. 37). In the spirit of that suggestion, we can think of philosophy of mind as the attempt to say how minds hang together- how things fit to form minds, and how minds fit with other...
Abstract If the scientific study of consciousness was once neglected-as almost every book published on the subject begins by reminding us-the opposite has been the case during the past decade. Shelves groan with recent books, articles, and new journals as cognitive scientists crowd into the space left vacant since the project of “scientific phenomenology,” as Edmund Husserl imagined it, was...