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1. Owning One’s Mind

   Like Socrates, but for different reasons, Freud thought the road to wisdom travels by way of self-knowledge. Psychoanalytic therapy works, he held in...

   Marcia Cavell in Interpretations and Causes

   Chapter 1999
   

2. Bibliography. Zeitschriftenschau

   Michael Anacker, Jutta Biedebach, ... Ralf Goeres in Journal for General Philosophy of Science

   Article 01 December 1998

3. Hussearle's Representationalism and the “hypothesis of the Background”

   John Searle's “hypothesis of the Background” seems to conflict with his initial representationalism according to which each Intentional state...

   Christian Beyer in Synthese

   Article 01 September 1997

4. Idea and Thing

   Yasuhiko Tomida in The Logic of the Living Present

   Chapter 1995
   

5. Content: Covariation, control and contingency

   The Representational Theory of the Mind allows for psychological explanations couched in terms of the contents of propositional attitudes....

   J. Christopher Maloney in Synthese

   Article 01 August 1994

6. More qualia trouble for functionalism: The Smythies TV-hood analogy

   It is the purpose of this article to explicate the logical implications of a television analogy for perception, first suggested by John R. Smythies...

   Edmond Wright in Synthese

   Article 01 December 1993

7. Is thought a symbolic process?

   Laurence Bonjour in Synthese

   Article 01 December 1991

8. Saving psychological Solipsism

   J. Christopher Maloney in Philosophical Studies

   Article 01 March 1991

9. Chapter VIII

   Most of us have from childhood had strongly realistic intuitions in the sense that we believe the physical world to exist independently of whether or...

   Jan Faye in Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy

   Chapter 1991
   

10. Cognitive Inquiry and the Philosophy of Mind

    Artificial intelligence deals with the most concrete and modern of artifacts, digital computers, and at the same time raises abstract and...

    David J. Cole in Philosophy, Mind, and Cognitive Inquiry

    Chapter 1990
    

11. Belief and Responsibility

    Few would deny that folk psychology embodies some essential components of our view of ourselves as persons. The specific element of personhood that...

    Bernard Berofsky in Computers, Brains and Minds

    Chapter 1989
    

12. Semantic competence, linguistic understanding, and a theory of concepts

    Nicholas Asher in Philosophical Studies

    Article 01 January 1988

13. Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and the Psychological Sciences

    What are the prospects of reconciling analytic and Continental theories of the psychological sciences?

    Joseph Margolis in Perspectives on Mind

    Chapter 1988
    

14. Syntactic Semantics: Foundations of Computational Natural-Language Understanding

    In this essay, I consider how it is possible to understand natural language and whether a computer could do so. Briefly, my argument will be that...

    William J. Rapaport in Aspects of Artificial Intelligence

    Chapter 1988
    

15. Possible worlds and situations

    Robert Stalnaker in Journal of Philosophical Logic

    Article 01 February 1986

16. The Paradox of Naming

    There is overwhelming evidence that proper names must have senses or connotations that somehow contain contingent information about their referents....

    W. Lycan in Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective

    Chapter 1985
    

17. Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective: An Introduction

    The aim of this volume is to extend the horizon of philosophical analysis as it is practiced today. If two different streams of philosophical ideas...

    Bimal K. Matilal in Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective

    Chapter 1985
    

18. Armstrong’s Causal Theory of Mind

    David Armstrong’s writings about the mind constitute a corpus of exceptional importance. Best known among these writings is his...

    David M. Rosenthal in D.M. Armstrong

    Chapter 1984