An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Mental content

... causal explanation 69 An introduction to the philosophy of mind7 8 circuits. 6 Now, if brain-code tokens could be assigned meaning- ful propositional contents, and if the propositional content of such ... Press, 1975). 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 – t...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... some of its proponents regarding it more as an account of our concepts of mental states than as a theory of the nature of mental states themselves. An introduction to the philosophy of mind5 2 ing ... states of consciousness to other human beings, so that to deny consciousness to the hypothetical pile of pebbles in the circumstances envisaged would...

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... different but overlap- ping issues to do with mental content: the causal relevance of mental content, the individuation of mental content, and the origin of mental content. With regard to the first issue, we ... content by reference to the contentful states of another subject. They would like an explanation of the origin of content which shows ho...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... possible. And the provision of just such a conception is one of the principal tasks of metaphysics. 3 The point of these remarks is to emphasise there cannot be progress either in the philosophy of mind ... what they say about this. Secondly, if they mean to abandon reasoned argument alto- gether, even in defence of their own position, then I have Introduction 5...

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... functions some- what analogously to the way in which an electronic digital An introduction to the philosophy of mind1 50 computer does and which, accordingly, can usefully be mod- elled by means of such ... this is passed to the other tank and the same amount of water is let into or out of it. But a much easier solution is to place the two tanks on the sam...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... because it allows the animal to restore the effectiveness of its core regula- tory systems. At the same time, the brain mind is off-line and free to reorganize its cognitive repertoire as well as ... release and/or heightened effectiveness of dopamine), we can hypothe- size an indirect but positive interaction with the other modula- tors of the awake state, noradre...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 08:20

... "man" of the Archbishop of Rheims. He was also the vassal of the Archbishop of Sens, of four other neighboring bishops, and of the abbot of the great monastery of St. Denis. To all of these ... combine the idea of the comitatus with the idea of the beneficium, and to grant the usufruct of parcels of their land on condition that the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 23:20

... α −β and β/ α −β . Figure 2.6 illustrates how the relative values of α and β affect the asymp- totic growth of the function. Boxes in the gures correspond to problem sizes for a divide-and-conquer ... dened only on the integers. Putting these together, we get a result that is useful for the analysis of a variety of algorithms. eorem 2.6 (Divide-and-conquer sequences)....

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... III THE GERMAN INVASIONS AND THE BREAK-UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE [Sidenote: The Huns force the Goths into the Empire. Battle of Adrianople, 378.] 9. Previous to the year 375 the attempts of the ... Germans to penetrate into the Empire appear to have been due to their love of adventure, their hope of enjoying some of the advantages of their civilized ne...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... measurements of the ratio of the wavelength of a line of Mg + to that of a line of H can be used to determine whether the ratio of electron to proton mass is changing in time. With what accuracies do the ... relative to the Earth. The overall relative velocity is the sum of the rotational velocity of the Earth, the velocity of the Earth round...

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