Précis of narrow content

Précis of : Consciousness , Color , & Content ( MIT Press , 2000

and non-conceptual. So, on the PANIC theory, their lack of phenomenal 12 See Milner and Goodale 1995, 85. I am indebted to Carruthers’ (2000, 154-68) discussion of this and other examples; he puts them to a related but somewhat different use. 13 See note 7 above.

Belief States and Narrow Content

Précis of implicit nationalism.

While the study of nationalism has received much attention throughout the social sciences and humanities, the experimental investigation of it lags behind. In this paper we review recent advances in the examination of implicit nationalism. In the first set of experiments we survey, the Palestinian, Israeli, Italian, and Russian flags were primed (or not, in the control conditions) and their eff...

Précis of Objects and Persons

There are no statues or chairs or rocks or planets. But there are microscopic objects. Let’s call them—whatever they may turn out to be—‘atoms’. And although there are no statues, there are atoms “arranged statuewise.” There are also atoms arranged chairwise, atoms arranged rockwise, and atoms arranged planetwise. I “eliminate” many familiar composite macroscopic objects. But I say there are at...

Précis of doing without concepts.

Although cognitive scientists have learned a lot about concepts, their findings have yet to be organized in a coherent theoretical framework. In addition, after twenty years of controversy, there is little sign that philosophers and psychologists are converging toward an agreement about the very nature of concepts. Doing without Concepts (Machery 2009) attempts to remedy this state of affairs. ...