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2007 Lecture 6: Knowing what we are thinking

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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
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The sixth lecture will try to resolve a familiar tension between externalism about mental content and the assumption that we have some kind of privileged knowledge of the contents of our own thoughts.
I will look at the "slow switching" scenarios, and consider what they show about the role of propositional content in characterizing mental states.

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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
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Robert Stalnaker
Keywords
philosophy
john locke
Faculty of Philosophy
oxford
John Locke Lectures
Philosophy Lecture Series
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 10/07/2008
Duration: 01:01:11

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