Consciousness is Underived Intentionality
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Consciousness is underived intentionality
Representationalists argue that phenomenal states are intentional states of a special kind. This paper offers an account of the kind of intentional state phenomenal states are: they are underived intentional states. This account of phenomenal states is equivalent to two theses: first, all possible phenomenal states are underived intentional states; second, all possible underived intentional sta...
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عنوان ژورنال: Noûs
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0029-4624
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2009.00730.x