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Introspective misidentification: An I for an IIn Andrew Brook & Richard Devidi (eds.), Self-Reference Amd Self-Awareness, Advances in Consciousness Research Volume 11, John Benjamins. 2001.
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The Concept of Thought: Logical Form in the Account of Mental RepresentationDissertation, The University of Wisconsin - Madison. 1989.There is a question how a causal approach to explaining the representational powers of belief can work together with a view according to which beliefs have truth conditions determined by their logical form. In Chapter I, I point out that truth makers of representations should not be language dependent entities if the aim is to show how representation is possible. I introduce a causal account of belief as being the kind of account which can comply with this. ;I examine features of a view accordin…Read more
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Dan Lloyd, Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (1): 49-53. 2005.
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27Naturalizing the Mind (review)Review of Metaphysics 51 (2): 414-415. 1997.This book contains a defense of representationalism—the thesis that all mental facts are representational facts. Some mental facts—such as facts about what a person believes—seem obviously to be representational facts—that is, facts about how things are represented to be. Other mental facts—such as certain facts about the character of sense experience, for example the painfulness of pain, or the fact that one’s knowledge of it is immediate and authoritative— seem less obviously to be facts about…Read more
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Dan Lloyd, Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness (review)Philosophy in Review 25 49-53. 2005.
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32Kant and the Mind (review)Review of Metaphysics 49 (4): 915-916. 1996.Kant and the Mind is for philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists as well as Kant scholars. Brook's central claim is that Kant's discoveries have not been assimilated in current theorizing about the mind, much less superseded. Of course, Kant's general framework has affinities with contemporary functionalism and representationalism. What Brook shows is that more specific Kantian themes and arguments can continue to bear fruit. These include Kant's account of synthesis--the tying of elements…Read more
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125What is wrong with an atomistic account of mental representationSynthese 100 (2): 307-27. 1994.
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Brute Error Without Sinn: Identity Claims in the Phaedo and in FregeIn Naomi Reshotko & Terry Penner (eds.), Desire, identity, and existence: essays in honor of T.M. Penner, Academic Print. &. 2003.There is a parallel between Plato's argument for the forms at 74b7-c5 in the Phaedo and Frege's argument for the claim that proper names express senses. There is also, I claim, an important asymmetry. The asymmetry explains why it is consistent to accept the conclusion of the Phaedo argument without accepting the conclusion of Frege's argument. The Phaedo argument turns on the possibility of a specific kind of mistaken judgement that may be termed "brute error". Frege's argument does not so depe…Read more
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96Natural kinds and ecological niches — response to Johnson's paperBiology and Philosophy 7 (2): 203-208. 1992.
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