Describe Rosenthal’s picture of consciousness, his HOT theory. What are the crucial features of the account
here? What are some of the advantages or strengths of this view? To what extent is there an explanatory gap
when explaining or making sense of consciousness on this view?
- Describe how we are asked to think of intentionality generally under Dennett’s view. What are the
advantages of this orientation? Describe Nozick’s criticism of Dennett’s view; what does this criticism seem to
show? What can Dennet say in reply and how do these replies, these defenses, show or lead us towards the
weakness of Dennett’s view? - Describe the theory of Intentionality with respect to language that Searle seeks to discredit with his Chinese
Room Counterexample (the CRC). How exactly does his CRC seem to do this, seem to show this view wrong?
What then are we left with, what is Intentionality with respect to language like under Searle? What does
multiple realizability look like under Searle? - Davidson: rehearse the problem Davidson thinks is the problem of mental causation. Describe his view of
mental predicates as “interpretive” and so “anomalous” with respect to the physical states they are token
identical with, and then say how this view seems to solve his problem. Describe the fundamental flaw in
Davidson’s position, and so, by contrast, what no view of mental causation can leave out.
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