Terence McMullen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6645218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terence McMullen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terence |
| FAMILY NAME | McMullen |
| SIGNATURE | MCMULLEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5693-7949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Memory and its offspring
Without memory we could not recall events, nor could we imagine, image, or expect things. Representationist accounts of memory claim that to remember is to access stored representations of past events. This is logically impossible: there are no such things as mental representations. Memory is the direct apprehension of past events. Some assert that this claim involves the temporal absurdity of supposing that the past can be known directly in the …
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John Anderson on Mind as Feeling
The most thoroughgoing of the .20th-century realists, John Anderson denied that minds are made up of cognitive or conative elements. Cognition (knowing) and conation (striving) are things that minds do (relations) and not things that minds are (qualities). He proposed feeling (emotion, passion) as the distinctive quality of the mental. Many of those psychologists who followed Anderson's epistemological realism in their psychology (especially W.M.…
The Savant Syndrome and Extrasensory Perception
D. A. Treffert, following B. Rimland, cited examples which he states show ESP to be occurring in certain autistic savant children. The evidence is questioned on the ground that it is hearsay, uncorroborated by independent scrutiny
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The Savant Syndrome and Extrasensory Perception
D. A. Treffert, following B. Rimland, cited examples which he states show ESP to be occurring in certain autistic savant children. The evidence is questioned on the ground that it is hearsay, uncorroborated by independent scrutiny
John Anderson on Mind as Feeling
The most thoroughgoing of the .20th-century realists, John Anderson denied that minds are made up of cognitive or conative elements. Cognition (knowing) and conation (striving) are things that minds do (relations) and not things that minds are (qualities). He proposed feeling (emotion, passion) as the distinctive quality of the mental. Many of those psychologists who followed Anderson's epistemological realism in their psychology (especially W.M.…
Obituary
Memory and its offspring
Without memory we could not recall events, nor could we imagine, image, or expect things. Representationist accounts of memory claim that to remember is to access stored representations of past events. This is logically impossible: there are no such things as mental representations. Memory is the direct apprehension of past events. Some assert that this claim involves the temporal absurdity of supposing that the past can be known directly in the …
Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Absurdity (1 work) · Apprehension (1 work) · Art (1 work)