Philosophy of Mind Workshop 2006-06-01

Final Workshop Meeting of the Year: Sense and Sensibilia, Chapters X and XI

Tonight the workshop met for the last time this academic year. We discussed the last two chapters of Sense and Sensibilia and what we might read in the fall.I will post a synopsis of our discussion of Austin shortly.We decided on four possible books for the fall:1. John Campbell, Reference and Consciousness2. Fiona Cowie, What's Within: Nativism Reconsidered3. David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind4. David Velleman, Self to Self-------------------------------------------------------------Sense and Sensibilia, Chapters X and XIDavid F. was on point tonight for the workshop. He got things going by asking three questions about the penultimate chapter in S&S;:When Austin is arguing against the view that there are kinds of sentences that are incorrigible, he says that it is possible to have "complete confidence" in statements that one makes, but that the confidence is due not to the kind of sentence that is ...

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