Dualism Makes The Problem Insoluble; Materialism Denies

It Seems To Me Obvious That Infants And Many Animals That Do Not In Any Ordinary Sense Have A Language Or Perform Speech Acts Nonetheless Have Intentional States. Only Someone In The Grip Of A Philosophical Theory Would Deny That Small Babies Can Literally Be Said To Want Milk And That Dogs Want To Be Let Out Or Believe That Their Master Is At The Door.

How Do We Get From Electrons To Elections And From Protons To Presidents?

The Ascription Of An Unconscious Intentional Phenomenon To A System Implies That The Phenomenon Is In Principle Accessible To Consciousness.

Many People Mistakenly Suppose That The Essence Of Consciousness Is That Of A Control Mechanism

We Do Not Live In Several Different, Or Even Two Different, Worlds, A Mental World And A Physical World, A Scientific World And A World Of Common Sense. Rather, There Is Just One World; It Is The World We All Live In, And We Need To Account For How We Exist As Part Of It.