Knowing that I am Thinking [chapter]

Introduction We often know that we are thinking, and what we are thinking about. Here ‘thinking’ is not supposed to be an umbrella term for cognition in general, but should be taken in roughly the sense of ‘a penny for your thoughts’: mental activities like pondering, ruminating, wondering, musi...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Byrne, Alex
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Μορφή: Άρθρο
Γλώσσα:en_US
Έκδοση: Oxford University Press 2013
Διαθέσιμο Online:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76306
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3652-1492
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Περίληψη:Introduction We often know that we are thinking, and what we are thinking about. Here ‘thinking’ is not supposed to be an umbrella term for cognition in general, but should be taken in roughly the sense of ‘a penny for your thoughts’: mental activities like pondering, ruminating, wondering, musing and daydreaming all count as thinking. In the intended sense of ‘thinking’, thinking is not just propositional: in addition to thinking that p, there is thinking of (or about) x. Belief is necessary but not sufficient for thinking that p: thinking that p entails believing that p, but not conversely.