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Comments on David Rosenthal's "Consciousness, content, and metacognitive judgments".

David Rosenthal’s higher order thought theory of consciousness (HOT) is one of the best articulated philosophical accounts of consciousness available. The theory is, roughly, that a mental state is conscious in virtue of there being another mental state, namely, a thought to the effect that one is in the first state. The second mental state is ‘‘higher order’’ since it is about a mental state. ...

Reply to David Ripley’s Comments on Comparison of Complex Predicates: ‘and’, ‘or’ and ‘more’

I agree with Ripley that additional theories and theoretical approaches should be considered in light of the findings discussed in my paper. I am particularly grateful for his remark concerning theories taking conjunction to be monontone. In a similar vein, joint work with Frank Veltman (in preparation), resulted in arguments against several dominant approaches to the analysis of vagueness and ...

Comments on Daniel Benjamin and David Laibson: “Good Policies For Bad Governments: Behavioral Political Economy”

2 The authors make two main arguments in this paper: that behavioral economics rationalizes a wide array of welfare-improving interventions; and that economists should refrain from recommending policies that go beyond benign paternalism because policymakers are subject to the same behavioral biases that afflict individuals or, worse, may be self-interested, not benevolent. I agree that behavior...

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