Philosophy Quotes

"Intentionality is the mark of the mental."

"Folk psychology captures something real about how we understand minds."

"Narrow content and wide content serve different explanatory purposes."

"Naturalism requires us to take seriously the physical basis of thought."

"Belief is a relation to a proposition, not a neural state."

"The private language argument doesn't prove what Wittgenstein thought it proved."

"Semantic properties supervene on causal histories, not just brain states."

"Mental causation is real, despite its apparent incompatibility with physicalism."

"The problem of other minds persists even after we understand neuroscience."

"Qualia are not what make experiences private or ineffable."

"We must respect the integrity of higher-level psychological explanations."

"The explanatory gap between physics and psychology is not merely epistemic."

"Mental causation requires rejecting some form of reductionism."

"Psychological explanations cite reasons, not merely causes."

"Intentionality is the key to understanding what makes minds special."

"Naturalism about the mind does not entail reductionism."

"Psychological explanation is irreducibly intentional in character."

"Mental states have intrinsic intentional properties."

"Understanding minds requires respecting their autonomy from physics."

"Intentionality is a natural phenomenon, not a mystery."

"Intentional realism is the only coherent view of the mental."

"Understanding other minds is achieved through psychological attribution."

"Intentional explanation is indispensable to cognitive science."

"We are not going to solve the problem of consciousness by pretending it doesn't exist or by hiding behind dualism."

"The purpose of the brain is to control behavior. All the rest is just window dressing."

"The meme is a unit of cultural information that replicates and evolves like genes."

"Qualia are not magical; they are informational states of the brain."

"The self is an abstraction, a way of organizing information about our behavior."

"Intentionality is what gives thoughts their meaning and direction."

"Ethics should be grounded in facts about human nature and well-being."