Repressed Contents Reconsidered:Repressed Contents and Dennett’s Intentional Stance Approach

Intentional Contents and Self-Control

Conventional research programs adopt efficient cause as a metaphor for how mental events affect behavior. Such theory-constitutive metaphors usefully restrict the purview of research programs, to define the space of possibilities. However, conventional research programs have not yet offered a plausible account of how intentional contents control action, and such an account may be beyond the ran...

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We illustrate the use of functional system speci cations and their re nement in the development of system components by a simple case study The development includes the modular speci cation re nement and veri cation of system components We start the development with an informal description of the tasks of the case study and then step by step carry out the tasks formally The informal requirement...

The Intentional versus the Propositional Structure of Contents

The mind is a representing organ. It is somehow able to receive, store, retrieve, and express content. The hallmark of contentfulness is given by propositional attitudes such as desiring, expecting, fearing, and hoping. I commit here the common sin of taking belief to be the paradigmatic attitude and pretending it to be representative of all the other ones; I shall leave this pretension uncheck...

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