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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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. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/763062022-09-26T09:50:11Z Knowing that I am Thinking [chapter] Byrne, Alex Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Byrne, Alex Byrne, Alex 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. 2013-01-18T16:36:25Z 2013-01-18T16:36:25Z 2011-04 2011-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItem 9780199590728 0199590729 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76306 Byrne, Alex. "Knowing that I am thinking" Chapter 5 in 'Self-Knowledge' Edited by Anthony Hatzimoysis. Oxford, Eng: Oxford Univ. Press., (Apr. 2011). 320 pages. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3652-1492 en_US http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Social/?view=usa&ci=9780199590728 Self-Knowledge [book] Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press Byrne via Michelle Baildon |
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