... pastand that what metaphysicians aspire to achieve is an imposs-ible dream. They claim that it is an illusion to suppose thathuman beings can formulate and justify an undistorted pic-ture ... also includenon-human animals and perhaps even robots, if these too can1 An introduction to the philosophy of mind2be minded. More speculatively, the things in question mighteven include disembodied ... spe-cific aspects of mind and personality: sensation, perception,thought and language, reasoning and intelligence, action andintention, and finally personal identity and self-knowledge.The order...