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Presenters: Dorit Bar-On (University of Connecticut) Alex Byrne (MIT) Lucy O’Brien (University College, London) Sarah Paul (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Christopher Peacocke (Columbia University) Sebastian Rödl (Universität Leipzig) Kieran Setiya (MIT)
Organizers: Matthew Boyle (Harvard University) Richard Moran (...
Please join Department Writing Fellow Michael Rabenberg for a presentation on "How to Write a Philosophy Paper." This presentation is highly recommended for students taking their first course in philosophy.
Tim Crane (Cambridge): "The Conscious and the Unconscious"
Abstract: Mental states with intentional content can be conscious or unconscious. But what does it really mean to say these states have content, and does it mean the same thing for the conscious states as it does for the unconscious? In other words, do conscious and unconscious intentional states have the same kind of content? The consensus among analytic philosophers is that the answer to this question is yes; a dominant idea, for example, is that all intentional states have propositional content, and...