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.
2007 Lecture 6: Knowing what we are thinking
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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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The John Locke Lectures are among the world's most distinguished lecture series in philosophy. The series began in 1950 and are given once a year.
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