What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that
consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief …

Functionalism in the philosophy of mind is the doctrine that what makes something a mental
state of a particular type does not depend on its internal constitution, but rather on the way it …

The notion of a “mental representation” is, arguably, in the first instance a theoretical
construct of cognitive science. As such, it is a basic concept of the Computational Theory of …

To say you are in a state that is (phenomenally) conscious is to say—on a certain
understanding of these terms—that you have an experience, or a state there is something it's …

Phenomenology is about subjective aspects of the mind, such as the conscious states
associated with vision and touch, and the conscious states associated with emotions and …

What is given to us in conscious experience? The Given is an attempt to answer this
question and in this way contribute to a general theory of mental content. The content of …

Phenomenal intentionality is a kind of intentionality, or aboutness, that is grounded in
phenomenal consciousness, the subjective, experiential feature of certain mental states. The …

The cognitive phenomenology thesis claims that “there is something it is like” to have
cognitive states such as believing, desiring, hoping, attending, and so on. In support of this …

This paper develops the claim that epistemic feelings are affective experiences. To establish
some diagnostic criteria, characteristic features of affective experiences are outlined …

This article argues for a task-based approach to identifying and individuating cognitive
systems. The agent-based extended cognition approach faces a problem of cognitive bloat …