Nicholas Georgalis
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicholas Georgalis plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 2352-099X
Articles
2003 The fiction of phenomenal intentionality Consciousness & Emotion 4:2, pp. 243–256 | Article
This paper argues that there is no such thing as “phenomenal intentionality”. The arguments used by its advocates rely upon an appeal to “what it is like” (WIL) to attend on some occasion to one’s intentional state. I argue that there is an important asymmetry in the application of the WIL… read more
2000 Mind, Brain, and Chaos The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, affect and self-organization — An anthology, Ellis, Ralph D. and Natika Newton (eds.), pp. 179–201 | Chapter
Most work in cognitive science, whether computationally or biologically based, relies on the idea of ‘unconscious representations.’ I argue that there are no such things. In contrast, conscious states do represent objects outside of the agent. My second main thesis concerns the ‘explanatory gap’… read more