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Content Internalism about Indexical Thought

Properly understood, content internalism is the thesis that any difference between the representational contents of two individuals’ mental states reduces to a difference in those individuals’ intrinsic properties. Some of the strongest arguments against internalism turn on the possibility for two “doppelgangers” – perfect physical and phenomenal duplicates – to differ with respect to the conte...

Reasoning about Time Constraints in a Mixed-Initiative Calendar Manager

Scheduling support is very important for calendar management in order to automatize the execution of possibly complex reasoning tasks. However, an interactive approach is desirable to enable the user to steer the allocation of events, which is a rather personal and critical kind of activity. This paper proposes a mixed-initiative scheduling model supporting the user’s awareness during the explo...

Some More Thoughts About Thought and Talk:

1. One tenet of Donald Davidson's account of radical interpretation is the interdependence of utterance interpretation and belief ascription. Assigning meanings to a speaker's utterances requires interpreters to make concomitant determinations of their beliefs. But at the same time, one cannot fix the contents of a subject's beliefs without identifying the meanings of their utterances. So belie...

Thinking about thinking: language, thought and introspection

I do not think that the world or the sciences would ever have suggested to me any philosophical problems. What has suggested philosophical problems to me is things which other philosophers have said about the world or the sciences. (G.E. Moore, 1942, p. 14) Peter Carruthers has made a vigorous attempt to defend the admittedly unfashionable doctrine that we think ‘in’ language, despite its displ...

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