Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself..

Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and developm….

In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect by means of gettin….

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed..

The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Mi….

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself.

Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matte….

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others..

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionali….

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France..

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness..

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem..

We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sen….

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing..

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean someth….

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer..

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality..

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence..

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms..