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140Multiple drafts and higher-order thoughts (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (4): 911-18. 1993.whatever it is that occurs in between the two. Though superficially tempting, this idea heightens the air of mystery surrounding consciousness. As far..
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1Sensory qualities, consciousness, and perceptionIn Consciousness and Mind, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 175-226. 2005.
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289MS, under submission, derived from a Powerpoint presentation at a Conference on Consciousness, Memory, and Perception, in honor of Larry Weiskrantz, City University, London, September 15, 2006.
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93Addendum to introductionIn Materialism and the Mind-Body Problem, Hackett. 2000.Mind-body materialism is at its most inviting in the context of trying to give a unified treatment of the natural world. And the principle challenge it faces is to do justice to the distinguishing features of mental phenomena, which set them off from nonmental, physical reality. This challenge it not easy to meet. In 1971 I suggested that the difficulty in meeting it makes especially appealing the eliminative materialism of Feyerabend and Rorty. If adopting the materialist view that mental pheno…Read more
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221Self-knowledge and Moore's paradoxPhilosophical Studies 77 (2-3). 1995.As G. E. Moore famously observed, sentences such as 'It's raining but I don't think it is', though they aren't contradictory, cannot be used to make coherent assertions.' The trouble with such sentences is not a matter of their truth conditions; such sentences can readily be true. Indeed, it happens often enough with each of us that we think, for example, that it isn't raining even though it is. This shows that such sentences are not literally contradictory. But even though such sentences have u…Read more
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15A theory of consciousnessIn Ned Block, Owen J. Flanagan & Guven Guzeldere (eds.), The Nature of Consciousness, Mit Press. 1997.
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166Higher-order theories of consciousnessScholarpedia 3 (5): 4407. 2008.in Scholarpedia, forthcoming
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2Descartes's Meditations: Critical Essays (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1997.This collection of recent articles by leading scholars is designed to illuminate one of the greatest and most influential philosophical books of all time. It includes incisive commentary on every major theme and argument in the Meditations, and will be valuable not only to philosophers but to historians, theologians, literary scholars, and interested general readers
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249Unity of consciousness and the selfProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 103 (3): 325-352. 2003.The so-called unity of consciousness consists in the compelling sense we have that all our conscious mental states belong to a single conscious subject. Elsewhere I have argued that a mental state's being conscious is a matter of our being conscious of that state by having a higher-order thought (HOT) about it. Contrary to what is sometimes argued, this HOT model affords a natural explanation of our sense that our conscious states all belong to a single conscious subject. HOTs often group states…Read more
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307Expressing One’s MindActa Analytica 25 (1). 2010.Remarks such as âI am in painâ and âI think that itâs rainingâ are puzzling, since they seem to literally describe oneself as being in pain or having a particular thought, but their conditions of use tend to coincide with unequivocal expressions of pain or of that thought. This led Wittgenstein, among others, to treat such remarks as expressing, rather than as reporting, oneâs mental states. Though such expressivism is widely recognized as untenable, Bar-On has recently advanced a ne…Read more
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CUNY Graduate CenterDepartment of Philosophy
Cognitive Science
Linguistics
Cognitive NeuroscienceProfessor
New York City, New York, United States of America
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Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Language |
Cognitive Sciences |