...Simon Prosser Intentionalism is the view that the phenomenal character of a conscious experience is wholly determined by, or even reducible to, its representational content. This essay puts forward a version of intentionalism that allows (though does not require) the reduction of phenomenal...

...Jeff Speaks BOOK REVIEWS David Chalmers, The Character of Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xxvii þ596 pp. This book collects David Chalmers’s work on consciousness from the publi- cation of The Conscious Mind to the present...

... character of Greeks with the flawed characters of Asians and Europeans. Aristotle, she points out, is advising a craftsman-lawgiver about what human material ( hulê ) to seek out in constructing an ideal city. Just as the chemical properties of wood might explain why some timber is better for boats than...

...David Cummiskey DIGNITY AND VULNERABILITY: STRENGTH AND QUALITY OF CHARACTER. By George W. Harris. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. 148. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVlEWS then only when taxonomized as self- and other...

...Natalie Brender KANT'S CONCEPTION OF MORAL CHARACTER: THE “CRITICAL” LINK OF MORALITY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT. By G. Felicitas Munzel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 377. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS political...

...Peter B. M. Vranas John M. Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 272. Cornell University 2004 Darley, J. M., and C. D. Batson. 1973 . “From Jerusalem to Jericho”: A study of situational and dispositional...

.... Creationism and Concrete Realism about Fictional Characters Although there is some controversy about how to characterize the concrete-abstract distinction,6 let us stipulate that an individual is con- crete if and only if it occupies a region of space and of time, otherwise it is abstract. A concrete...

...Hilla Jacobson Attempts to account for the phenomenal character of perceptual experiences have so far largely focused on their sensory aspects . The first aim of this article is to support the claim that (perceptual) phenomenal character has another, significant, aspect—the phenomenal realm...

... from the a priori character of these conditionals to the applicability of modal rationalism to the nonphenomenal cases is to rely either on modal rationalism itself or on the denial of type-B materialism. Obviously, in the context of this argument, either way would beg the question. © 2010 by Cornell...

... valuable in other ways: it helps mitigate their dependence on epistemic luck, for example. What we end up with, at the end of the day, are credences that are particularly good candidates for constituting probabilistic knowledge. What's more, examining the character of these credences teaches us something...

... be an important difference between what Kant says about discursive cognizers with other forms of sensibility and what he is in a position to say about discursive cognizers with other forms of understanding. Kantian humility here takes on a distinctive character. Adrian.moore@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk anil.gomes...

... in Hamlet to Hamlet. Thomasson has another idea: ‘Hamlet’ denotes a fictional character: an existent abstract object. Platonists take all universals to be eternal, necessary beings. Thomasson demurs: abstracta may be contingent. Intentionally created, they come to be at one time and cease...

... in McGinn, The Problem of Consciousness (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991). ____. 1989 . Mental Content. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. ____. 1996 . The Character of Mind , 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ____. 1997 . “Critical Study of Dretske's Naturalizing the Mind.” Noûs 31 : 528 -37...

... like it's good’. But my point is that it can also be used to speak truly, conveying something about the character of your visual experience that is not clearly captured by Breckenridge's semantics. Could some further implicit domain restriction help? Perhaps with (6) we can talk about the way...

... the puzzle’s solution. This results in a fundamental tension in Kaplan’s observations concerning demonstra- tives. Kaplan distinguishes among three semantic values for a single expression: extension, content, and character. Extension is essentially Frege’s notion of Bedeutung. The extension...

...Ben Caplan Cornell University 2003 Bach, Kent. 1992a . Intentions and Demonstrations. Analysis 52 : 140 -46. ____. 1992b . Paving the Road to Reference. Philosophical Studies 67 : 295 -300. Braun, David. 1994 . Structured Characters and Complex Demonstratives...

... the relationship between morality and aesthetics. Judgment, Fleischacker concludes, is characterized best as a complex skill allowing us to reach conclusions about the relationship between general standards and concrete particulars. These conclusions are neither based on feelings nor the product of strict...

.... 110, No. 4 (October 2001) CROSS-EXAMINING SOCRATES: A DEFENSE OF THE INTERLOCUTORS IN PLATO’S EARLY DIALOGUES. By JOHN BEVERSLUIS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 416 In Plato’s early dialogues, we witness a character named “Socrates” in philo- sophical action...

... of phenomenal character or qualia, for which no textual evidence or argument is given. One might think that this is not so different from Kalderon's frequent characterization of the exercise of our sensory capacities in phenomenological terms, as consisting in “the presentation of [their] primary object[s...

... response to this paradox is the suggestion (unprecedented, as far as I aware) that Plato himself found the character whom he portrays in the Socratic dialogues as mysterious as his readers do: Though Socrates is Plato s creature, his own literary character, he remains opaque to him: he is a character his...