Date: 1975
"The remainder [of the brain] is more like an exposed negative waiting to be dipped into developer fluid."
preview | full record— Wilson, E. O. (b. 1929)
Date: 1980
"Cause is the cement of the universe; the concept of cause is what holds together our picture of the universe, a picture that would otherwise disintegrate into a diptych of the mental and the physical."
preview | full record— Davidson, Donald (1917-2003)
Date: 1990
"But in the case of her visual experience of a tree, I want to say that she is not aware of, as it were, the mental paint by virtue of which her experience is an experience of seeing a tree."
preview | full record— Harman, Gilbert (b. 1938)
Date: 1990
"Some sense datum theorists will object that Eloise is indeed aware of the relevant mental paint when she is aware of an arrangement of color, because these sense datum theorists assert that the color she is aware of is inner and mental and not a property of external objects."
preview | full record— Harman, Gilbert (b. 1938)
Date: Summer, 1991
"Elinor has constructed herself in this way around an original lack: the absentation of her sister, and perhaps in the first place the withholding from herself of the love of their mother, whom she then compulsively unites with Marianne, the favorite, in the love-drenched tableaux of her imaginat...
preview | full record— Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky (1950-2009)