Dr. Howard Clinton Carruthers

Dr. Howard Jones, Jr. (1910-2015): In Memoriam

Dr. Howard as we knew him, along with his wife Dr. Georgeanna Seegar Jones, were directors of the IVF team that helped establish the first America's " test-tube " baby who was born December, 1981, transforming reproductive medical science and propelling the field from a dream to reality. Their innovations have been the basis of an estimated over 6 million births worldwide through IVF. The impac...

Peter Carruthers

Four different accounts of the relationship between third-person mindreading and first-person metacognition are compared and evaluated. While three of them endorse the existence of introspection for propositional attitudes, the fourth (defended here) claims that our knowledge of our own attitudes results from turning our mindreading capacities upon ourselves. Section 1 introduces the four accou...

Reply to Carruthers

Carruthers Chap13.indd

T is normally the precursor of action. We think fi rst, and then we act. Most models of creative thought and creative activity make a similar assumption. They assume that creative activity is preceded by, and is causally dependent upon, creative thought. This chapter, in contrast, argues for the reverse. It develops a model according to which creative thought is always preceded by, and causally...

Carruthers on the Deficits of Animals

The simple version of the HOT theory of consciousness is easily refuted. Carruthers escapes this refutation because he is actually a closet introspectionist. I agree with Carruthers that the subjective properties of experience are constituted from discriminatory and other cognitive responses, but I disagree that conceptual uptake into a language of thought is the form of uptake that is necessar...