Brian Loar
Biographic Data
| ID | 752018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Loar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Loar |
| SIGNATURE | LOAR B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
David Chalmers's The Conscious Mind
David Chalmers's book is impressive in many ways. I admire the great skill, incisiveness and breadth of vision with which he conducts his argument. Many of his controversial theses and intuitions I find congenial. Unfortunately I do not believe the book's central thesis, namely, that facts about consciousness are not physical facts. Much of the book is devoted either to establishing this, or to considering how things stand in the light of it. Let…
Self-Interpretation and the Constitution of Reference
In the first person, it is not easy to regard scepticism about reference seriously. Seeing a tree one thinks is an oak; and it makes little apparent sense to wonder whether the trunk or the bark are equally as good candidates as the tree itself for being what one's thought is about. There is a modem tradition of discounting the first-person perspective, and of counting it essential to a proper understanding of semantic properties and relations th…
Phenomenal States
Subjective Intentionality
Mind and Meaning
Mind and Meaning
Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts
Words and Deeds
Reference and Propositional Attitudes
Phenomenal States
David Chalmers's The Conscious Mind
David Chalmers's book is impressive in many ways. I admire the great skill, incisiveness and breadth of vision with which he conducts his argument. Many of his controversial theses and intuitions I find congenial. Unfortunately I do not believe the book's central thesis, namely, that facts about consciousness are not physical facts. Much of the book is devoted either to establishing this, or to considering how things stand in the light of it. Let…
Reference and Propositional Attitudes
Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts
Reference and Propositional Attitudes
Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts
Words and Deeds
Mind and Meaning
Mind and Meaning
Subjective Intentionality
Phenomenal States
Self-Interpretation and the Constitution of Reference
In the first person, it is not easy to regard scepticism about reference seriously. Seeing a tree one thinks is an oak; and it makes little apparent sense to wonder whether the trunk or the bark are equally as good candidates as the tree itself for being what one's thought is about. There is a modem tradition of discounting the first-person perspective, and of counting it essential to a proper understanding of semantic properties and relations th…
David Chalmers's The Conscious Mind
David Chalmers's book is impressive in many ways. I admire the great skill, incisiveness and breadth of vision with which he conducts his argument. Many of his controversial theses and intuitions I find congenial. Unfortunately I do not believe the book's central thesis, namely, that facts about consciousness are not physical facts. Much of the book is devoted either to establishing this, or to considering how things stand in the light of it. Let…
Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Analytic philosophy (5 works) · Contemporary philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · General interest (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Meaning (existential) (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)