... that agents control singular thought production. This chapter draws on findings in vision science and object perception to explain how Cognitvism supports a mental file analysis of singular thought, one that is rooted in the interplay between our evolutionarily develped cognitive goals, object perception...

... view Frege G Hume D Nagel T Davidson D Fine K cause s individual s Parfit D Wittgenstein L Descartes R James W O’Brien L Prinz J Recanati F Snowdon P knowledge psychological Geach P Quine W V O self first person de se subject consciousness Hume Kant Wittgenstein mental file...

.... Possession of de se content involves the possession of a subject’s mental file on itself, and an integrating apparatus that operates to generate representations in the subject’s file on itself. The subject’s file on itself has a distinctive updating mechanism as time passes. Three degrees...