PHL240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intentionality, Rationality, Physical Law
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We start with the assumption that tables and chairs don"t have minds, and humans and monkeys do. We will examine theories such that they imply the contrary. Mental states are the conditions of the mind: believing that the water is wet is a mental state, forming of an intention is a process that your mind undergoes, reasoning is another mental state. It is an active mental process: creating is another. What makes a bright red and an eyes closed imagining of a bright red is a difference in feeling: inferential (for lack of a better term): distinction has to do with contrasting kinds of inferential roles. The belief that coffee is on the way and the desire that coffee be on the way both are directed on coffee on the way. Belief is correct if it accurately depicts the world. Desire wants the world to conform to us.