The Intellectual Powers: A Study of Human Nature

PrefaceIntroduction: The ProjectProlegomenaChapter 1 Consciousness as the Mark of the Mental1. Consciousness as a mark of modernity2. The genealogy of the concept of consciousness3. The analytic of consciousness4. The early modern philosophical conception of consciousness5. The dialectic of consciousness I6. The contemporary philosophical conception of consciousness7. The dialectic of consciousness II8. The illusions of self-consciousnessChapter 2 Intentionality as the Mark of the Mental1. Intentionality2. Intentional 'objects'3. The central sun: the relation of thought to reality4. The first circle: what do we believe (hope, suspect, etc.)?5. The second circle: the relation of language to reality6. The third circle: the relation of thought to language7. The fourth circle: the epistemology of intentionality8. The fifth circle: meaning and understandingChapter 3 Mastery of a Language as the Mark of a Mind1. A language-using animal2. Linguistic communication3. Knowing a language4. Meaning something5. Understanding and interpreting6. Meaning and use7. The dialectic of understanding: the 'mystery' of understanding new sentencesPart I The Cognitive and Doxastic PowersChapter 4 Knowledge1. The value of knowledge2. The grammatical groundwork3. The semantic field4. What knowledge is not5. Certainty6. Analyses of knowledge7. Knowledge and ability8. Knowing how9. What is knowledge? The role of 'know' in human discourseChapter 5 Belief1. The web of belief2. The grammatical groundwork3. The surrounding landscape4. Voluntariness and responsibility for belief5. Belief and feelings6. Belief and dispositions7. Belief and mental states8. Why believing something cannot be a brain state9. What is belief? The role of 'believe' in human discourseChapter 6 Knowledge, Belief and the Epistemology of Belief1. Knowledge and belief2. The epistemology of belief3. Non-standard cases: self-deception and unconscious beliefsChapter 7 Sensation and Perception1. The cognitive powers of the senses2. Sensation3. Perception and sensation4. Sensation, feeling and tactile perceptionChapter 8 Perception1. Perceptual organs, the senses and proper sensibles2. Perceptual powers: cognition and volition3. The classical causal theory of perception4. The modern causal theory of perceptionChapter 9 Memory1. Memory as a form of knowledge2. The objects of memory3. The faculty and its actualities4. Forms of memory5. Further conceptual links and contrasts6. The dialectic of memory I: the Aristotelian legacy7. The dialectic of memory II: trace theoryPart II The Cogitative PowersChapter 10 Thought and Thinking1. Floundering without an overview2. The varieties of thinking3. Is thinking an activity?4. What do we think in?5. Thought, language and the language of thought6. Can animals think?7. The agent, organ and location of thinking8. Thinking and the 'inner life'Chapter 11 Imagination1. A cogitative faculty2. The conceptual network of the imagination3. Perceiving and imagining4. Perceptions and 'imaginations': clarity and vivacity of mental imagery5. Mental images and imagining6. Imagination and the will7. The imaginable, the conceivable and the possibleAppendix: Philosophical Analysis and the Way of Words1. On method2. Methodological objections and misunderstandingsIndex