Content and Consciousness Revisited With Replies by Daniel Dennett

 What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary envir

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Carlos Muñoz-Suárez Felipe De Brigard Editors

Content and Consciousness Revisited With Replies by Daniel Dennett

Studies in Brain and Mind Volume 7

Editor-in-Chief Gualtiero Piccinini, University of Missouri - St. Louis, U.S.A. Editorial Board Berit Brogaard, University of Missouri - St. Louis, U.S.A. Carl Craver, Washington University, U.S.A. Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Oron Shagrir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Mark Sprevak, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.

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Carlos Muñoz-Suárez • Felipe De Brigard Editors

Content and Consciousness Revisited With Replies by Daniel Dennett

Editors Carlos Muñoz-Suárez Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain

Felipe De Brigard Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Department of Philosophy Duke University Durham, North Carolina, USA

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Foreword: Writing Content and Consciousness

Oxford in the mid-1960s dominated Anglophone philosophy as never before (and never since), and there were dozens of Americans, Canadians, Australasians, and South Africans (whites, of course, back then) eager to become certified practitioners of the then fashionable ordinary language philosophy. I was as enthusiastic as any, with Ryle’s Concept of Mi