Quotational higher-order thought theory

Quotational higher-order thought theory

Due to their reliance on constitutive higher-order representing to generate the qualities of which the subject is consciously aware, I argue that the major existing higher-order representational theories of consciousness insulate us from our first-order sensory states. In fact on these views we are never properly conscious of our sensory states at all. In their place I offer a new higher-order ...

A Higher Order Syntactic Thought ( HOST ) Theory of Consciousness

Higher-Order Thought Rendered Defenseless

I found this book to be a big disappointment. It attempts to elaborate and defend David Rosenthal's (1986, 1990, 1993) "higher-order thought" theory of consciousness, the idea that to be in a conscious mental state is to be thinking (correctly) that one is in a mental state. To have a conscious sensation of red is to be perceiving red and simultaneously to be perceiving the perception as a perc...

Higher-Order Game Theory

In applied game theory the motivation of players is a key element. It is encoded in the payoffs of the game form and often based on utility functions. But there are cases were formal descriptions in the form of a utility function do not exist. In this paper we introduce a representation of games where players’ goals are modeled based on so-called higher-order functions. Our representation provi...

Higher-Order Decision Theory

Classical decision theory models behaviour in terms of utility maximisation where utilities represent rational preference relations over outcomes. However, empirical evidence and theoretical considerations suggest that we need to go beyond this framework. We propose to represent goals by higherorder functions or operators that take other functions as arguments where the max and argmax operators...