Knowing One’s Own Mind
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...…been taken up by some philosophers who emphasize social communication and learning as an essential ingredient to giving content to mental states (Davidson 1987), by neuroscience theories of consciousness that argue sensory consciousness requires relay of information to the prefrontal cortex for…...
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...The sharing of minds established at this early stage is also (implicitly or explicitly) considered critical by many philosophers of mind (Cavell, 1994; Davidson, 1987; Wittgenstein, 1969)....
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...…humans to infer, attribute and represent the intentional mental states of others – a capacity that can clearly extend to generate representations of one’s own mind; 3) a capacity to predict, explain, and justify the actions of others by inferring the intentional mental states that cause them....
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...Solutions to this apparent puzzle are proposed by Davidson (1987) and Burge (1988); but the former is less than transparent and the latter is convincingly shown by Boghossian (1989) to be inadequate....
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...As these &dquo;that&dquo; clauses suggest, conditions of life are states of affairs that hold a person, not discrete entities (for other construals of &dquo;mental states&dquo; as nondiscrete, see Davidson 1987 and Dennett 1987)....
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