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47Judgments and drafts eight years laterIn Andrew Brook, Don Ross & David L. Thompson (eds.), Dennett's Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment, Mit Press. 2000.Now that some years have passed, how does this picture of consciousness look? On the one hand, Dennett's work has vastly expanded the range of options for thinking about conscious experiences and conscious subjects. On the other hand, I suspect that the implications of his picture have been oversold (perhaps more by others than by Dennett himself). The rhetoric of _CE_ is radical in places but I do not sure that the actual implications for commonsense views of Seemings and Subjects are nearly as…Read more
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47Kant and the MindPhilosophical Review 104 (4): 590. 1995.Consciousness, self-consciousness, mental unity, and the necessary conditions for cognition are issues of paramount importance for two prima facie distinct intellectual endeavors: contemporary cognitive science and interpretations of Kant. The goal of Andrew Brook’s timely and useful book is to contribute to both of these projects by showing how a better understanding of Kant’s views can also illuminate current controversies about how to model the mind.
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44Kant's A Priori Methods for Recognizing Necessary TruthsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 22 (sup1): 215-252. 1992.
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40Critical Notice of Bernard Williams, Problems of the Self (review)Canadian Journal of Philosophy 5 (4): 627-639. 1975.
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39Further routes to psychological constructionismBehavioral and Brain Sciences 35 (3): 153-154. 2012.In this commentary, we do two things. First, we sketch two further routes to psychological constructionism. They are complementary to Lindquist et al.'s meta-analyses and have potential to add new evidence. Second, we look at a challenging kind of case for constructionism, namely, emotional anomalies where there are correlated, and probably relevant, brain anomalies. Psychopaths are our example
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34Kant: A unified representational base for all consciousnessIn Uriah Kriegel & Kenneth Williford (eds.), Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness, Mit Press. pp. 89-109. 2006.
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31Realism in the Refutation of IdealismProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 2 313-320. 1995.
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31Sense of fairness: Not by itself a moral sense and not a foundation of a lot of moralityBehavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (1). 2013.Baumard et al. make a good case that a sense of fairness evolved and that showing this requires reciprocity games with choice of partner. However, they oversimplify both morality and the evolution of morality. Where fairness is involved in morality, other things are, too, and fairness is often not involved. In the evolution of morality, other things played a role. Plus, the motive for being fair originally was self-interest, not anything moral
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31Fodor's New Theory of Content and ComputationMind and Language 12 (3-4): 459-474. 1997.In his recent book, The Elm and the Expert, Fodor attempts to reconcile the computational model of human cognition with information‐theoretic semantics, the view that semantic, and mental, content consists of nothing more than causal or nomic relationships, between words and the world, or (roughly) brain states and the world. In this paper, we do not challenge the project. Nor do we show that Fodor has failed to carry it out. instead, we urge that his analysis, when made explicit, turns out rath…Read more
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29Kant’s Attack on the Amphiboly of the Concepts of ReflectionThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 45 41-46. 1998.In the neglected 'Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection,' Kant introduces a new transcendental activity, Transcendental Deliberation. It aims to determine to which faculty a representation belongs and does so by examining the representation's relationships to other representations. This enterprise yields some powerful ideas. Some of the relationships studied have great interest, numerical identity in particular. Indeed, seeing Kant discuss it here, one wonders why he did not include it in the …Read more
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28Unity of consciousnessIn Brian P. McLaughlin, Ansgar Beckermann & Sven Walter (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind, Oxford University Press. pp. 565--577. 2007.
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27Acknowledgement of external reviewers for 2002Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2 (95): 151-152. 2003.
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20Introduction: Philosophy in and Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Part IITopics in Cognitive Science 1 (3): 547-547. 2009.
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19Jackendoff on consciousnessPragmatics and Cognition 4 (1): 81-92. 1995.In "How language helps us think", Jackendoff explores some of the relationships between language, consciousness, and thought, with a foray into attention and focus. In this paper, we will concentrate on his treatment of consciousness. We will examine three aspects of it: I. the method he uses to arrive at his views; 2. the extent to which he offers us a theory of consciousness adequate to assess his views; and 3. some of the things that we might need to add to what he offers to achieve an adequa…Read more
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17Kant's A Priori Methods For Recognizing Necessary TruthsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 22 (sup1): 215-252. 1992.
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15Reconciling the Two ImagesIn S. O'Nuillain, Paul McKevitt & E. MacAogain (eds.), Two Sciences of Mind, John Benjamins. pp. 9--299. 1997.
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15Apperception and Related Matters in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Opus PostumumStudies in Transcendental Philosophy 3 (3). 2022.In the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/7), Kant laid out a deep-running and largely original picture of the apperceptive mind, including a claim that in consciousness of self, one does not appear to oneself as an object and that consciousness of self is presupposed by consciousness of other things. As a result, consciousness of oneself does not provide knowledge of oneself and the referential apparatus of consciousness of self is radically different from other kinds of referential apparatus. The m…Read more
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9Jackendoff on consciousnessPragmatics and Cognition 4 (1): 81-92. 1996.In "How language helps us think", Jackendoff explores some of the relationships between language, consciousness, and thought, with a foray into attention and focus. In this paper, we will concentrate on his treatment of consciousness. We will examine three aspects of it: I. the method he uses to arrive at his views; 2. the extent to which he offers us a theory of consciousness adequate to assess his views; and 3. some of the things that we might need to add to what he offers to achieve an adequa…Read more
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6Kant and Time‐Order IdealismIn Heather Dyke & Adrian Bardon (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Time, Wiley. 2013.Kant was a transcendental idealist even about the time‐order of representations. For Kant, idealism meant two things: We are aware only of the contents of our own mind and what we are aware of is largely a result of the activities of the mind. His constructivism is the central issue in this chapter. The first part of the chapter is devoted to demonstrating preliminary existence proof. The middle sections of the chapter take up the localization problem. The final section of the paper identifies a…Read more
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