To desire something is a condition familiar to everyone. It is uncontroversial that desiring has
something to do with motivation, something to do with pleasure, and something to do with …

Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that
includes classic and contemporary readings from leading philosophers. Addressing in depth …

When your car runs up to factory specifications, it runs properly, the way it should. The
factory specifications set a standard for correct or proper performance. During an inspection …

At the beginning of How to Do Things with Words, JL Austin bemoaned the common
philosophical pretense that ''the business of a [sentence] can only be to 'describe'some state …

I offer here an account of what it is to have an attitude. I intend this account to be entirely
general—to include all the “propositional attitudes”(believing, desiring, intending, fearing …

Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? One aim of
Making AI Intelligible is to show that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can …

Representational theories of consciousness can be understood as supporting Brentano's
thesis, that intentionality is the mark of the mental, since they seek to explain consciousness …

Semantic externalism is the view that the meanings of referring terms, and the contents of
beliefs that are expressed by those terms, are not fully determined by factors internal to the …

I argue that perceptual experience provides us with both phenomenal and factive evidence.
To a first approximation, we can understand phenomenal evidence as determined by how …

The function of a trait token is usually defined in terms of some properties of other (past,
present, or future) tokens of the same trait type. I argue that this strategy is problematic, as …