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The Given Michelle Montague (University of Texas at Austin)

The Given By Michelle Montague (University of Texas at Austin)

The Given by Michelle Montague (University of Texas at Austin)


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What is given to us in conscious experience? Michelle Montague offers a new answer, and thus contributes to a general theory of mental content. She analyses conscious perception, conscious emotion, and conscious thought, and argues that all experience essentially involves four things: content, intentionality, phenomenology, and consciousness.

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The Given: Experience and its Content by Michelle Montague (University of Texas at Austin)

What is given to us in conscious experience? The Given is an attempt to answer this question and in this way contribute to a general theory of mental content. The content of conscious experience is understood to be absolutely everything that is given to one, experientially, in the having of an experience. Michelle Montague focuses on the analysis of conscious perception, conscious emotion, and conscious thought, and deploys three fundamental notions in addition to the fundamental notion of content: the notions of intentionality, phenomenology, and consciousness. She argues that all experience essentially involves all four things, and that the key to an adequate general theory of what is given in experience-of 'the given'-lies in giving a correct specification of the nature of these four things and the relations between them. Montague argues that conscious perception, conscious thought, and conscious emotion each have a distinctive, irreducible kind of phenomenology-what she calls 'sensory phenomenology', 'cognitive phenomenology', and 'evaluative phenomenology' respectively-and that these kinds of phenomenology are essential in accounting for the intentionality of these mental phenomena.

About Michelle Montague (University of Texas at Austin)

Michelle Montague received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2002. She is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, from 2002 to 2007 and a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol from 2008 to 2013. She has been a visiting professor and scholar at Princeton University, MIT, ANU, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of London. Her primary interests are philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and metaphysics.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Intentionality, phenomenology, consciousness, and content 2: A Brentanian theory of content 3: Awareness of awareness 4: P. F. Strawson's datum 5: Brentanianism, standard representationalism, and Fregean representationalism 6: Perception of physical objects: the phenomenological particularity fact 7: Perception of physical objects: the access problem 8: Cognitive phenomenology: what is given in conscious thought 9: Evaluative phenomenology: what is given in conscious emotion Concluding remarks

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NPB9780198748908
9780198748908
0198748906
The Given: Experience and its Content by Michelle Montague (University of Texas at Austin)
New
Hardback
Oxford University Press
2016-06-30
264
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