The Philosophy of Psychology
Parts of our vocabulary for describing actions have wide commitments, other parts do not. So you cannotminegold unless gold gets ...
interested in diVerences amongst mental states which reXect diVerences in their causal powers. And where the causal powers of tw ...
from the arguments above, that the notion extracted had better be a narrow one. Supposing that there are some psychological (con ...
come to be transmitted by other secondary hosts, apart from mosquitoes. The relationally formulated ‘law’ is not really a law at ...
the environment (whereinformationis a causal notion). Content can then come to be of causal relevance, provided that the mental ...
intention to produce something for sitting upon. Does this mean that chairhoodis causally relevant to the eVects which any given ...
explanation, supplemented by relational facts, can sustain thesameset of counterfactuals. Set out in more detail, the Peacocke e ...
contents,quacontents, can be causes, since essentially the same problem will arise in connection with all conceptions of content ...
committed to wide content, but science tells us that content is narrow, does that mean that folk psychology is in error, and sho ...
Sometimes, on the other hand, our interest in the thoughts of others is communicative,orbelief-acquisitive. Often our perspectiv ...
content isexplanatory, conforming to narrow principles of individuation. This is just as it should be if, as we suggested in cha ...
Why is it that the conditions for successful communication, in general, are as they are, requiring only mutual knowledge of worl ...
context-sensitive one, with varying application-conditions). Here, as so often in philosophy, what matters is not what notion we ...
7 Content naturalised In this chapter we review the three main types of current project for naturalising semantics – information ...
Being a realist about propositional attitudes means believing that the diVerences between thebeliefthat P and thedesirethat P, o ...
2 Informational semantics Informational, or causal co-variance, semantics is one version of naturalis- tic semantics. Semantic t ...
contribute to the content of any given representation. This would then entail that no two thinkers ever entertain a belief with ...
Figure 7.1 Asymmetric causal dependence (the arrows represent causation or causal dependence) term ‘S’ will refer to Ss, and onl ...
marginal cases is asymmetrically dependent upon its application to the cases in the centre? That is, might it not be plausible t ...
It is doubtful whether an appeal to asymmetric causal dependence can help Fodor here. For it appears that we have asymmetricdepe ...
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