Consciousness (philosophical Issues Series No 1)

CONSCIOUSNESS P/zilosophical Issues, 1, 1991 PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES Edited by Enrique Villanueva (Sociedad Filos6fica Ibero Americana/Universidad Nacional Aut6noma de Mdxico) Forthcoming Volumes Volume 2, Rationality in Epistemology Volume 3, Science and Knowledge P/zilosophicalIssues, 1, 1991 CONSCIOUSNESS edited by Enrique Villanueva Sociedad Filos6fica Ibero Americana Ridgeview Publishing Company Atascadero, California Copyright O 1991 by Enrique Villanueva All rights resewed. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electrical or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any informational storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. Paper text: ISBN 0-924922-01-x Cloth (library edition): ISBN 0-924922-51-6 The typesetting was done by Jose Luis Olivares. Published in the United States of America by Ridgeview Publishing Company Box 686 Atascadero, California 93423 Printed in the United States of America Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Enrique Villanueva 1 The Independence of Consciousness and Sensory Quality David M. Rosenthal 2 Lovely and Suspect Qualities Daniel C. Dennett 3 Consciousness, Unconsciousness and Intentionality John R. Searle 4 Searle's Neo-Cartesian Theory of Consciousness D. M. Armstrong 5 Sensations in a Language of Thought Georges Rey 6 Consciousness and Subjectivity J. I. Biro 7 The Anatomy of Consciousness Brian O'Shaughnessy vii 1 8 Between Internalism and Externalism Ernest Sosa 9 What is Present t o the Mind? Donald Davidson 10 Thoughts and its Objects Akeel Bilgmmi 11 Belief, Self-Ascription, and Ontology James E. Tomberlin 12 Chisholm's Intentional Criterion of Property-Identity and De Se Belief Lynn Pasquarella Contributors Acknowledgments The present volume derives mostly from papers presented a t the Sociedad Filos6fica Ibero Americana, SOFIA'S second conference on Consciousness made in collaboration with the Sociedad Argentina de Anilisis Filos6fico SADAF, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 30-August 1, 1989. SOFIA expresses its gratitude t o Ernest Sosa for his kind coperation and overall support during preparation of the conference. Our gratitude for Eduardo Rabossi and Juan Rodriguez Larreta for their brave encouragement t o carry on with the conference at a time of great stress in Argentina. Lourdes Valdivia again excelled herself taking a main burden of the organization both from Mdxico (with the generous help from Silvia Carrillo) and while in Buenos Aires; her editorial virtues are present again in this volume. We also express our gratitude t o all the SADAF members who indefatigably help us before and during the Conference. The British Council again helped this time t o make possible Professor O'Shaughnessy's valuable participation. Finally thanks again t o our Mexican supporters the Secretaria de Educaci6n Pliblica, the Universidad de Guadalajara and the Universidad Nacional Aut6noma de Mkxico (through many of its departments) who continue t o provide unvaluable help even in those moments of great economic stress. Enrique Villanueva Tepoztlin, Mkxico, January 1990 PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES, 1 Consciousness, 1991 Introduction Enrique Villanueva We should ask ourselves how much we have advanced in our theoretical mastery of the concept of consciousness since the days of the Cartesians who claimed that consciousness is a light involving self-knowledge and rationality. How much more do we know about that light and the actual working of that illumination in the mind's mechanisms? The ensuing papers handle in more than one way that cru