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39Analyzing ApperceptionIn Gideon Stiening & Udo Thiel (eds.), Johann Nikolaus Tetens : Philosophie in der Tradition des Europäischen Empirismus, De Gruyter. pp. 103-132. 2014.
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Narrow Taxonomy and Wide FunctionalismIn Richard Boyd, Philip Gasper & J. D. Trout (eds.), The Philosophy of Science, Mit Press. pp. 671--85. 1991.
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90Freud's Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of MindPhilosophical Review 103 (3): 549-551. 1994.
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193Kant's thinkerOxford University Press. 2011.Overview -- Locke's internal sense and Kant's changing views -- Personal identity amd its problems -- Rationalist metaphysics of mind -- Consciousness, self-consciousness, and cognition -- Strands of Argument in the Duisburg Nachlass -- A transcendental deduction for a priori concepts -- Synthesis : why and how? -- Arguing for apperception -- The power of apperception -- "I-think" as the destroyer of rational psychology -- Is Kant's theory consistent? -- The normativity objection -- Is Kant's th…Read more
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309Kant on self-consciousnessPhilosophical Review 108 (3): 345-386. 1999.The highest principle of Kant’s theoretical philosophy is that all cognition must “be combined in one single self-consciousness”. Elsewhere I have tried to explain why he believed that all cognition must belong to a single self ; here I try to clarify the other half of the doctrine. What led him to the claim that all cognition involved self-consciousness? This question is pressing, because the thesis strikes many as obviously false.
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90Triangulating phenomenal consciousnessBehavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (2): 259-260. 1995.This commentary offers two criticisms of Block's account of phenomenal consciousness and a brief sketch of a rival account. The negative points are that monitoring consciousness also involves the possession of certain states and that phenomenal consciousness inevitably involves some sort of monitoring. My positive suggestion is that “phenomenal consciousness” may refer to our ability to monitor the rich but preconceptual states that retain perceptual information for complex processing.
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46A Final Accounting: Philosophical and Empirical Issues in Freudian PsychologyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (1): 268-270. 1999.
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