Past events
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Jan
2011
All Cognitive Content is Conscious Content
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I will argue that all cognitive content is conscious content. More specifically, I will argue that there are no genuinely representational standing states and that thought content is limited to conscious thought content. I will show how we can construct notions of standing state and occurrent state…
20
Jan
2011
The State of the Union: Descartes and Mind-Body Unity and Interaction
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Having distinguished to his satisfaction mind and body so successfully, Descartes faced the challenge of sticking them back together so as to explain how they constitute a single thing, the whole human being. To avoid the charge of Platonism, he asserts that the union is not an accidental unity of…
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