The modal view in the cognitive and neural sciences holds that consciousness is necessary for abstract, symbolic, and rule-following computations. Hence, semantic processing of multiple-word expressions, and performing of abstract mathematical computations, are widely believed to require consciousness. We report a series of experiments in which we show that multiple-word verbal expressions can ...

The Anna Karenina theory says: all conscious states are alike; each unconscious state is unconscious in its own way. This paper argues that many components have to function properly to produce consciousness, but failure in any one of many different ones can yield an unconscious state in different ways. In that sense the Anna Karenina theory is true. But in another respect it is false: kinds of ...

European Journal of PhilosophyEarly View BOOK SYMPOSIUM Brentano on phenomenal and transitive consciousness, unconscious intentionality Angela Mendelovici, Corresponding Author Mendelovici [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-5496-0141 Department Philosophy, Western University, London, Canada Correspondence Ontario, Canada. Email: [email protected] for more papers by this author First publis...

Many aspects of our mental lives are conscious—an ache in tired muscles; the sight, smell, and taste of a glass of wine; feelings of happiness, love, anxiety or fear; trying to work out how best to test a hypothesis or structure an argument. It seems beyond dispute that at least some sensations, perceptions, emotional episodes, and bouts of thinking are conscious. But equally, there is much in ...

cognitive theories of forgetting. FOR many years the central role accorded to mechanisms of psychological defence was one of the characteristics that divided psychoanalytic theory and therapy from behavioural and cognitive therapies. Throughout his life Freud claimed that the purpose of psychoanalytic therapy was to lift the repression that excluded unacceptable mental contents from awareness i...