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 …

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

One sometimes believes a proposition without grasping it. For example, a complete
achromat might believe that ripe tomatoes are red without grasping this proposition. My aim …

Philosophers traditionally recognize two key features of mental states: intentionality and
phenomenal consciousness. To a first approximation, intentionality is the 'aboutness' of …

Inspired by Castañeda, Perry and Lewis argued that, among singular thoughts in general,
thoughts about oneself 'as oneself'–first-personal thoughts, which Lewis aptly called de se …

Imagine the following scene. A woman stands at the front door of her house. Her daughter
has been living in a remote Peruvian village in the Amazon volunteering for the Peace …