the character of mind an introduction to the philosophy of mind apr 1997

[...]... added to the mere presence of the latter to render them conscious? It does not seem right to suppose that we need to add a phenomenology a way it -11- file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20- on%2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm (17 of 175) [11.07.2007 13:54:08] file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20-%2 0An% 2 0Introduction% 2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm seems to the person to have the. .. form when they meet their end? -26- file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20- on%2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm (31 of 175) [11.07.2007 13:54:08] file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20-%2 0An% 2 0Introduction% 2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm Dualism also has awkward questions to answer in regard to evolution We are accustomed to the idea (to be discussed further below) that mind somehow... file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20- on%2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm (21 of 175) [11.07.2007 13:54:08] file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20-%2 0An% 2 0Introduction% 2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm all-or-nothing character It is therefore in place to ask, of any theory of the mind, whether it can accommodate this feature of consciousness and if it cannot, what view it takes of the intuition that consciousness... and significance of the results and methods of scientific psychology This latter discipline is to the philosophy of mind as the philosophy of linguistics is to the philosophy of language, or as the philosophy of physics is to the metaphysical question as to the nature of the physical world These fields are not of course totally unrelated, but their focus and aim are different: the former fields are... amounts to a dualism of objects and not just of properties This objection, however, plays right into the hands of the theory it is intended to undermine, by drawing attention to a way of rendering the mind more firmly physical than under the theory that took mental phenomena to be entirely attributive and -28- file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20- on%2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm (33 of 175)... the nature of pain according to modern neurophysiology, though this is file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20- on%2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm (24 of 175) [11.07.2007 13:54:08] file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20-%2 0An% 2 0Introduction% 2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm -19- not contained in the concept of pain What this type-identity theory attempts to do is to account for the. .. deemed to be of philosophical interest those with the richness and depth to reveal something significant about the phenomena to -5- file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20- on%2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm (11 of 175) [11.07.2007 13:54:08] file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20-%2 0An% 2 0Introduction% 2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm which they apply Thus we do not expect that the essential... in first-and thirdperson judgements, yet there is a strong and natural tendency to -6- file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20- on%2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm (12 of 175) [11.07.2007 13:54:08] file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20-%2 0An% 2 0Introduction% 2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm suppose that the content of mental concepts reflects their characteristic conditions of ascription... to us, others relate to what we think of as the objective intrinsic nature of particulars Thus we can describe a particular explosion as loud, and we can describe it in terms of the atomic processes of which it consists: the -29- file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20- on%2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm (34 of 175) [11.07.2007 13:54:08] file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20-%2 0An% 2 0Introduction% 2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm... seems that nothing else can be the essence of our conscious states The problem for immaterial substance is thus fundamentally the same as the problem of giving -25- file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20- on%2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm (30 of 175) [11.07.2007 13:54:08] file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20-%2 0An% 2 0Introduction% 2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm consciousness a . file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20-%2 0An% 2 0Introduction% 2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm THE CHARACTER OF MIND -i- [This page intentionally left blank.] -ii- THE CHARACTER OF MIND. file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20-% ion%2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm (2 of 175) [11.07.2007 13:54:08] file:///D| /The% 2 0Character% 2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20-%2 0An% 2 0Introduction% 2 0to% 2 0the% 2 0Philosophy% 2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm ISBN. philosophy of mind as the philosophy of linguistics is to the philosophy of language, or as the philosophy of physics is to the metaphysical question as to the nature of the physical world. These fields