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: November 22, 1990
"One is not an immaterial soul, floating around in a machine."
preview | full record— Sacks, Oliver (b. 1933)
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)
Date: Summer, 1991
"Elinor's pupils, those less tractable sphincters of the soul, won't close against the hapless hemorrhaging of her visual attention-flow toward Marianne; it is this, indeed, that renders her consciousness, in turn, habitable, inviting, and formative to readers as 'point-of-view.'"
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Date: 1992
"The kingdom of the mind, therefore, included not only human understanding and willing, but also human seeing, hearing, feeling, pain, and pleasure."
preview | full record— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
Date: 1992
"All of us, at one time or another, are inclined to think of the mind as an inner landscape, a more or less mysterious region which needs to be explored and mapped."
preview | full record— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
Date: 1992
"The geography of the mind is not a simple matter to discover, because its most basic features are a matter of dispute between philosophers. It cannot be explored simply by looking within ourselves at an inward landscape laid out to view"
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Date: 1992
"What we see when we take this inner look will be partly determined by the philosophical viewpoint from which we look, or, we might say, by the conceptual spectacles we may be wearing."
preview | full record— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
Date: 1992
"The mind--considered as intellect and will together--is, if all goes well, supreme in the human soul; but neither intellect nor will is an autocratic emperor; rather, they are joint consuls on the model of the Roman Republic."
preview | full record— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)