... 1.Contentsviii4Mentalcontent69Propositions70Thecausalrelevanceofcontent74Theindividuationofcontent79Externalisminthephilosophyofmind82Broadversusnarrowcontent84Content,representationandcausality89Misrepresentationandnormality92Theteleologicalapproachtorepresentation95Objectionstoateleologicalaccountofmentalcontent99Conclusions1005Sensationandappearance102Appearanceandreality103Sense-datumtheoriesandtheargumentfromillusion107Otherargumentsforsense-data110Objectionstosense-datumtheories112Theadverbialtheoryofsensation114Theadverbialtheoryandsense-data116Primaryandsecondaryqualities119Sense-datumtheoriesandtheprimary/secondarydistinction121Anadverbialversionoftheprimary/secondarydistinction125Docolour-propertiesreallyexist?126Conclusions1286Perception130Perceptualexperienceandperceptualcontent131Perceptualcontent,appearanceandqualia135Perceptionandcausation137Objectionstocausaltheoriesofperception143Thedisjunctivetheoryofperception145Thecomputationalandecologicalapproachestoperception149Consciousness,experienceand‘blindsight’155Conclusions1587Thoughtandlanguage160Modesofmentalrepresentation162 The languageofthought’hypothesis164Analogueversusdigitalrepresentation167Imaginationandmentalimagery169Thoughtandcommunication175Doanimalsthink?178Naturallanguageandconceptualschemes183In ... experiences, in which they seem to float away fromtheir bodies and hover above them, seeing them from an external point view in the way in which another person mightdo so. These experiences may ... P,there is another physical state Q such that (a) Q is a causeof P and yet (b) even if one of the two states M and Q hadnot existed, the other would still have sufficed, in the circum-stances,...
... upwidely by the community at large, it is vital that developersdesign their software to conform to the relevant standards. For the Grid community, the most important standards organizationsare the ... messaging (WS-ReliableMessaging);6 ANINTRODUCTION TO THE GRID•Managing workload (WS-Management);•Transaction-handling (WS-Coordination and WS-AtomicTrans-action);•Managing resources (WS-RF or ... which is the primary stan-dards setting organization for the Grid, and OASIS [11], a not-for-profit consortium that drives the development, convergenceand adoption of e-business standards,...
... 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 ... embrace any kind of sensation, perception orthought. This agreed, we can say that the philosophy of mindis the philosophical study of subjects of experience – whatthey are, how they can exist, and ... concernedwith the analysis of such concepts as the concepts of percep-tion, thought and intentional agency. The philosophical ana-lysis of a concept is not to be confused with a mere accountof the meaning...
... somestrange coincidence, the inhabitants of this planet speak alanguage which sounds just like English and that they use the word ‘snow’ for the stuff descending from their skies. An inhabitant ... relationship to the kind of stuff in ques-tion. Although John and one of the inhabitants of the distantplanet would both be prepared to assert the sentence ‘Snowis white’, they would thereby be ... normal circumstances, the presence of an eagle causes the presence of the characteristic silhouette, which in turn causes the monkey to make the call: and yet we want to say thatwhat the call represents...
... strings ofmeaningless marks or sounds. If that is so, then to abandon the category of belief is implicitly to abandon also the verynotions of truth and falsehood and therewith, it seems, the very ... mind66chapter 9. But there is, in any case, another reason for con-tending that ‘folk psychology’ is not any sort of theory ofhuman behaviour. This is that – or so many philosophers andpsychologists ... in the way that the laws of mechanics govern the behaviour of mas-sive bodies. Rather, what we may do is to engage in an empathetic ‘simulation’ of what we take to be their outlookupon the...
... ofmany things other than just a tree and a house and theirposition relative to one another – things such as the colourand shape of the tree and of the house, the interveningground between them, ... between them, the sky behind them, and otherobjects in their vicinity (together with their colours andshapes). And these other ingredients of the perceived scene –or many of them, at any rate – ... in the ‘blind’ regions of their visual fields? After all, they them-selves strongly deny that they can see anything there. If the answer is given that they must be seeing something sincethey...
... notation and semantics. The three topics covered are sequence diagrams, activitydiagrams and state charts. An explanation is given of each and how they fit into the overall model structure. Introduction ... Cases, the Activity describes the process that is undertaken and the Use Case how an Actor will use the system torealise all or part of an Activity.NotationActivity Diagram NotationStandard ... as a whole and further refine the design and implementation details necessary to complete the software system.Enterprise Architect An introduction to modelling software systems using the Unified...
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... Information, a nd the String Theory Revolution The evolution from one surface of constant ω to another is governedby the Rindler Hamiltonian. Using conventional methods the generator ofω-translations ... would record the dimensionless hyperbolic angle ω defined by equation 1.3.17. The spatial location of the Fidos can be labeled by the angular coordi-nates (θ, φ) and any one of the radial variables ... nd the String Theory Revolutionspatial distance from the origin, but is defined so that the area of the 2-sphere at r is 4πr2. The angles θ, φ are the usual polar and azimuthalangles. In equation...
... brevity and its narrow scope, its lack of characters other than the dreamer, and its emotional flatness. Many sleep-onset dream reports are richer and more variegated than this one, although they ... they have meaningful connections. The meaning of their connection is determined as much by the context in which they are evoked as by their historical source. So, just as Freud, the atheist, was ... perceptually vivid and emotionally salient, it is also cognitively bizarre, by which I mean that, despite the persistence of the main themes, there is a flagrant disregard for the constancies of time,...
... toxicity of a substance depends on three factors: its chemical structure, the extent to which the substance is absorbed by the body, and the body’s ability to detoxify the substance (change it into ... substances) and eliminate it from the body. The toxicity of a substance is the potential of that substance to cause harm, and is only one factor in determining whether a hazard exists. The ... mixed into the surrounding air. The rate at which a liquid is changed to a vapor; usually compared to the rate of another substance that evaporates very quickly, such as ether. The range of...
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