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... that, for instance, damage to one’s foot can cause one to feel pain and that a desire to raiseone’s arm can have the effect of that arm’s going up. But formany critics of Cartesian dualism, its ... ContentsPrefacepagexi 1Introduction1 Empiricalpsychologyandphilosophicalanalysis2Metaphysicsandthephilosophyofmind3Abriefguidetotherestofthisbook62Minds,bodiesandpeople8Cartesiandualism9Theconceivabilityargument11Thedivisibilityargument13Non-Cartesiandualism15Arepersonssimplesubstances?18Conceptualobjectionstodualisticinteraction21Empiricalobjectionstodualisticinteraction24Thecausalclosureargument26Objectionstothecausalclosureargument29Otherargumentsforandagainstphysicalism32Conclusions363Mentalstates39Propositionalattitudestates40Behaviourismanditsproblems41Functionalism44Functionalismandpsychophysicalidentitytheories48Theproblemofconsciousness51Qualiaandtheinvertedspectrumargument53Somepossibleresponsestotheinvertedspectrumargument55Theabsentqualiaargumentandtwonotionsofconsciousness59Eliminativematerialismand‘folkpsychology’61Someresponsestoeliminativematerialism64Conclusions66vii ... Contentsviii4Mentalcontent69Propositions70Thecausalrelevanceofcontent74Theindividuationofcontent79Externalisminthephilosophyofmind82Broadversusnarrowcontent84Content,representationandcausality89Misrepresentationandnormality92Theteleologicalapproachtorepresentation95Objectionstoateleologicalaccountofmentalcontent99Conclusions1005Sensationandappearance102Appearanceandreality103Sense-datumtheoriesandtheargumentfromillusion107Otherargumentsforsense-data110Objectionstosense-datumtheories112Theadverbialtheoryofsensation114Theadverbialtheoryandsense-data116Primaryandsecondaryqualities119Sense-datumtheoriesandtheprimary/secondarydistinction121Anadverbialversionoftheprimary/secondarydistinction125Docolour-propertiesreallyexist?126Conclusions1286Perception130Perceptualexperienceandperceptualcontent131Perceptualcontent,appearanceandqualia135Perceptionandcausation137Objectionstocausaltheoriesofperception143Thedisjunctivetheoryofperception145Thecomputationalandecologicalapproachestoperception149Consciousness,experienceand‘blindsight’155Conclusions1587Thoughtandlanguage160Modesofmentalrepresentation162The‘languageofthought’hypothesis164Analogueversusdigitalrepresentation167Imaginationandmentalimagery169Thoughtandcommunication175Doanimalsthink?178Naturallanguageandconceptualschemes183 In this book Jonathan Lowe offers a lucid and wide-ranging introductionto the philosophy of mind. Using aproblem-centred approach designed to stimulate...
... concep-tion of the whole of reality, we cannot hope to render compat-ible the theories and observations of the various differentsciences: and providing that conception is not the task of anyone of ... group of scientists. For example, an adequate analysis of the concept of seeing cannot be arrived at simply by examin-1I say more about the notion of a ‘subject of experience’ in my book of that ... that Wittgenstein himself has contributed much of value to ourunderstanding of ourselves as subjects of experience. Anintroductionto the philosophy of mind4ever. It is also inextricably involved...
... 97certain type of call in the presence of eagles and to respond to that type of call by running into the bushes will accordinglyhave a greater chance of surviving attacks by eagles – andpassing ... somestrange coincidence, the inhabitants of this planet speak alanguage which sounds just like English and that they usethe word ‘snow’ for the stuff descending from their skies. An inhabitant of ... ofan eagle.OBJECTIONS TO A TELEOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF MENTAL CONTENTThese advantages of the teleological theory of representationover the causal theory may encourage us to try to extend itto...
... states to a subject is always open to manyalternative interpretations and that often the best that wecan hope to do, in the light of a given subject’s circumstancesand pattern of behaviour, is to ... machinery. Butrejection of any type–type theory of mental and physicalstates is consistent with acceptance of a token–token theory,that is, a theory according to which any token mental state,such ... friends of functionalismmay want to respond to this argument, other than byresorting toan outright denial of the existence of ‘qualia’altogether.8Some may contend that the hypothesis of spec-trum...
... perceptualexperience of seeing a table to be rectangular, because an ability to enjoy such an experience seems to require an ability to recognise tables as objects of some kind (even if not astables) and likewise ... properly belongs to a philosophical analysis of theconcept of perception and what properly belongs toan empir-ical theory of perception of the sort that is more appropri-ately advanced and evaluated ... Perception, Part III. Anintroductionto the philosophy of mind134 an exhaustive specification of the propositional content of hisperceptual judgement and thus an exhaustive inventory of the concepts...
... us to come to terms with this discovery. And there are still many die-hards who refuse to relinquish the hopeless fantasy of the total power of interpretation offered by dream content analysis. ... Richard to bid his friend stop. For some reason, he has to go upstairs to turn off the machine (although it appears to be fully portable and self-contained) and this takes an inordinate length of ... the calm cover of sleep and is the result of a built-in mechanism of brain acti-vation that operates in all of us every night of our lives. It is the goal of this chapter to explain how the...
... holdings of land no one could hope to enjoy a high social position or an honorable office under the government. Consequently the land came gradually into the hands of the rich and ambitious, and ... volume of the chief changes in western Europe since the German barbarians overcame the armies of the Roman Empire and set up states of their own, out of which the present countries of France, ... INVASIONS AND THE BREAK-UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE The Huns force the Goths into the Empire. Battle of Adrianople, 378. 9. Previous to the year 375 the attempts of the Germans to penetrate into the...
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... termanalysis of algorithms to refer to the whole process, with the goal of providinganswers with as much accuracy as necessary.e analysis ofan algorithm can help us understand it better, and ... onperformance. We must be cognizant of such effects to be sure the results of analysis are useful. On the other hand, in some cases, analysis ofan algo-rithm can help identify ways for it to take ... edition of our book AnIntroductionto the Analysis of Algorithmswas prepared with these thoughts in mind. It is dedicated to the memory of Philippe Flajolet, and is intended to teach generations to...
... 29Table of Cases xxv We express particular thanks to Finola O’Sullivan and Sinead Moloney of CambridgeUniversity Press. It would be remiss of us to fail to note the contributions of Professor ... appeals of Mr Lubanga Dyilo and the Prosecutor against thedecision of Trial Chamber I of 14.7.2009 entitled ‘Decision giving notice to the parties andparticipants that the legal characterization of ... for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded in Armies in the Field 1Bevans 7 26818.10.1907 Hague Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, Annex to HagueConvention IV,...
... into Ireland and established a center of Christianity there. When the Germansoverran Britain and reheathenized it, the Irish monks and clergy were too far off to be troubled by thebarbarians. ... years, the explanation of how the Roman Empire of the West andthe wild and unknown districts inhabited by the German races have become the Europe of Gladstone andBismarck, of Darwin and Pasteur.In ... monks lived and what they did for mankind. In short, the object ofan introduction to mediæval and modern European history is the description of the most significant achievements of westerncivilization...
... independent of choice of scale. Itis therefore an important quantity in cosmology: it is an observable measure of the rate at which the Universe is expanding. AnIntroductionto the Science of Cosmology ... student of physics, can use these tools to begin to grasp for yourselfa vision of the birth of a whole Universe. And in those times of dark plagues andenmities, remember that vision, and let ... used, togetherwith Hubble’s law, to obtain the distance to a galaxy, provided that the galaxyis far enough away for the contribution of random velocities to the redshift to be unimportant. Note...
... and God’s law. The lawcan be understood and accepted, and a desire can ex-ist to act in accordance with it, but often the pas-sions of the body conflict with the law and win thestruggle. To ... different ar-rangements; so although the actual atoms do notchange, the objects of which they are made canchange. Humans, too, are bundles of atoms, and thesoul or mind is made up of smooth, ... con-sists of guesses, of hypotheses, rather than of finaland certain truths; and that criticism and criticaldiscussion are our only means of getting nearer to the truth. It thus leads to the tradition...
... the treaty of Verdun lies in the tolerably definite appearance of a western and an eastern Frankish kingdom, one of which was to become France and the other Germany. In the kingdom of Charles ... ever-strengthening Frankish state and the head of the Church.This good feeling quickly ripened into an alliance, momentous for the history of Europe. In order to understand this we must glance at the ... independent landowners were held together by feudalism. One who hadland to spare granted a portion of it to another person on condition that the one receiving the land shouldswear to be true to him and...