Archive for January, 2007

Roving Minds: Pereboom on Consciousness and Introspective Inaccuracy

Posted by Torin Alter on January 31st, 2007

Last semester I attended two conferences: the Physicalism and Beyond workshop at the Berlin GAP.6 conference, in September, and the Alabama Philosophical Society’s 2006 meeting, here at The University of Alabama, in October. A social highlight of the Berlin conference was finally meeting Sven Walter, with whom I co-edited Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal [...]

Internalism and empty thoughts

Posted by Clayton Littlejohn on January 18th, 2007

A comment of Kati Farkas’ was too interesting not to comment on, but commenting on it in the thread on Philippe’s post would have been off topic. New post, new(ish) topic, problem solved. I’m particularly interested in this remark, which captures an intuitive motivation often offered on behalf of internalism:
Philippe, you ask for [...]

Content Internalism: Why? Oh why?

Posted by Philippe Chuard on January 15th, 2007

Help wanted! Over the break, I’ve been forced to think about Content-Externalism, something I hadn’t done for quite a while. My old rebellious self used to find Internalism appealing, but now, I’m not so sure I even understand what’s going on in this dispute: in particular, I don’t see how anyone would want to defend [...]