Cynthia Macdonald, Mind-Body Zdentity Theories (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 36-38 (and cf. also p. 205). This corrects an error in the original argument, the corrected version appearing in the paperback edition forthcoming by Routledge,... more
Cynthia Macdonald, Mind-Body Zdentity Theories (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 36-38 (and cf. also p. 205). This corrects an error in the original argument, the corrected version appearing in the paperback edition forthcoming by Routledge, January 1992. Macdonald on Type ...
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Book Information Perception and Reason. By Bill Brewer. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1999. Pp. xviii + 281.
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This paper defends a qualified observational model of authoritative self‐knowledge, which centres on two features of ordinarily observable characteristics that help explain a subject's direct awareness of them. The first is that they... more
This paper defends a qualified observational model of authoritative self‐knowledge, which centres on two features of ordinarily observable characteristics that help explain a subject's direct awareness of them. The first is that they are basic, in that one does not have to know of any underlying fact in virtue of which they apply when they do; and the second is that it is generally necessary and sufficient for the application of such a characteristic that it seems to a normal observer, in normal circumstances, that it does apply. The view is defended against two well‐known misgivings about modelling such knowledge on observation: first, that there is a telling structural disanalogy, since observation normally involves three components, namely, the item perceived, an intermediary, non‐conceptual sensation state, and a judgement grounded in that sensation state, whereas self‐knowledge of an intentional state apparently involves analogues of the first and third components only, nam...
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Research Interests: Sociology, Philosophy, Epistemology, Consciousness, Physicalism, and 6 moreConscience, Individuation, Concept, Nous, A posteriori, and Noûs
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The complexities already mentioned, however, indicate that the original question admits of two different types of answer. The first complexity requires certain causal conditions be satisfied; that there must be no circumstances which... more
The complexities already mentioned, however, indicate that the original question admits of two different types of answer. The first complexity requires certain causal conditions be satisfied; that there must be no circumstances which block the causal efficacy of the intention. This ...
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24 ANALYSIS fact that the position attempts to reconcile three apparently incompatible principles: that of causal interaction between mental and physical events, considered in extension; that of the nomo-logical character of causality,... more
24 ANALYSIS fact that the position attempts to reconcile three apparently incompatible principles: that of causal interaction between mental and physical events, considered in extension; that of the nomo-logical character of causality, which subsumes causally ...