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Ullin T. Place (1924-2000)

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Anscombe, G. E. M. (1965). The intentionality of sensation: a grammatical feature. In R. J. Butler (Ed.), Analytical Philosophy (pp. 158-180). Blackwell.
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Armstrong, D. M. (1968). A materialist theory of the mind. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Burnheim, J (c. 1968). Intentionality and materialism (Unpublished paper presented to the Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney).
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Chisholm, R. (1957). Perceiving: a Philosophical Study. Cornell University Press.
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Davidson, D. (1969). The Individuation of Events. In N. Rescher (Ed.), Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel pp. 216-234). Reidel.
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Davidson, D. (1970). Mental events. In L. Foster and J. W. Swanson (Eds.), Experience and theory. Duckworth.
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Davidson, D. (1982). Rational animals. Dialectica, 36, 317-327.
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Dennett, D. C. (1978). Brainstorms: Philosophical essays on the mind and psychology. Bradford.
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Feigl, H. (1958). The "Mental" and the "Physical", In H. Feigl, M. Scriven, & G. Maxwell (Eds.), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Vol II, pp. 370-497). University of Minnesota Press.
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Fodor, J. (1975). The language of thought. Crowell.
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Garrett, R. (1985). Elbow room in a functional analysis: Freedom and dignity regained. Behaviorism, 13, 21-36
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Geach, P. T. (1957) Mental Acts. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Hume, D. (1739). A Treatise on Human Nature (L.A. Selby-Bigge, Ed., 2nd Edition, P.H. Nidditch, Ed. - 1978. Clarendon Press).
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Lycan, W. G. (1969). On "Intentionality" and the Psychological. American Philosophical Quarterly, 6, 305-311.
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Mackie, J. L. (1962). Counterfactuals and Causal Laws. In R. J. Buttler (Ed.), Analytical Philosophy (pp. 66-80), Blackwell.
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Martin, C. B., & Pfeifer, K. (1986). Intentionality and the non-psychological. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 46, 531-554.
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Place, U. T. (1956). Is consciousness a brain process? British Journal of Psychology, 47, 44-50.
[Abstract]The thesis that consciousness is a process in the brain is put forward as a reasonable scientific hypothesis, not to be dismissed on logical grounds alone. The conditions under which two sets of observations are treated as observations of the same process, rather than as observations of two independent correlated processes, are discussed. It is suggested that we can identify consciousness with a given pattern of brain activity, if we can explain the subject's introspective observations by reference to the brain processes with which they are correlated. It is argued that the problem of providing a physiological explanation of introspective observations is made to seem more difficult than it really is by the `phenomenological fallacy', the mistaken idea that descriptions of the appearances of things are descriptions of the actual state of affairs in a mysterious internal environment.
Keywords: consciousness, mind-brain identity theory, phenomenological fallacy
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The revised version from 1997, see download (below), is not published and incorporates revisions proposed in Place (1997g). Publications citing Place (1956): See publications citing 'Is conscious a brain process?'
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Place, U. T. (1960). Materialism as a scientific hypothesis. Philosophical Review, 69, 101-104.
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Place, U. T. (1977a). Twenty years on - "Is consciousness still a brain process?" Open Mind, 6,3-10.
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Ryle, G. (1949). The Concept of Mind. Hutchinson.
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Searle, J. R. (1979). What is an Intentional State? Mind, LXXXVIII, 74-92.
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Searle, J. R. (1983). Intentionality: an essay on the philosophy of mind. Cambridge University Press.
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Searle, J. R. (1984). Minds, Brains and Science: The 1984 Reith Lectures. British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Smart, J. J. C. (1959). Sensations and brain processes. Philosophical Review, LXVIII, 141-156.
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A revised version with new references appeared in V. C. Chappell (Ed.) (1962), The philosophy of mind. Prentice-Hall. Later reprints are of this version.
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