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An Intellectual Entertainment: Thought and Language by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…This dialogue on thought and language is a sequel to my dialogue ‘Thought and Thinking’, but can be read independently of it. The five disputants are the same…”
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An Intellectual Entertainment: Thought and Thinking by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…This dialogue is on the nature of thought and thinking. The five disputants are Socrates, an imaginary neuroscientist from California (whose opinions reflect…”
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Isms are prisms: a reply to Keestra and Cowley by Hacker, P.M.S., Bennett, M.R.

“…This is a reply to Keestra and Cowley (2009), which is a long critical article about our book Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience ( Bennett and Hacker,…”
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HOW THE "TRACTATUS" WAS MEANT TO BE READ by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…This paper describes the results of the work of Luciano Bazzocchi on the composition of the Tractatus, and the significance of the numbering system. The method…”
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Wittgenstein, Carnap and the New American Wittgensteinians by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…James Conant, a proponent of the 'New American Wittgenstein', has argued that the standard interpretation of Wittgenstein is wholly mistaken in respect of…”
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Covert cognition in the persistent vegetative state by Nachev, P, Hacker, P M S

“…Brain damage can sometimes render a patient persistently unresponsive and yet apparently awake, admitting the possibility that the absence of overt voluntary…”
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Is There Anything it is Like to be a Bat? by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…The concept of consciousness has been the source of much confusion over the past two decades. Current orthodoxy in ‘consciousness studies’ has it that the key…”
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Two Conceptions of Language by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…Two different conceptions of language dominate philosophical reflection on the nature of human language and of human linguistic powers. The first is the…”
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Thought and Action: A Tribute to Stuart Hampshire by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…The paper is a tribute to the late Stuart Hampshire's investigations of the ramifying role of intention in our conceptual scheme. It surveys the central…”
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Before the Mereological Fallacy: A Rejoinder to Rom Harré by HACKER, P. M. S.

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An Intellectual Entertainment: A Dialogue on Mind and Body by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…This dialogue on the mind/body relation is a sequel to my dialogue ‘On the Nature of the Mind’, but can be read independently of it. The five disputants…”
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Before the Mereological Fallacy: A Rejoinder to Rom Harré by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…The brain, he claims, is a part of a person's body, 'and a person's body is not part of that person in the relevant sense'.1 Organs of human beings, according…”
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Language and cortical function: conceptual developments by Bennett, M R, Hacker, P M S

“…Mastery of a language is a capacity that distinguishes humans from other animals. Attempts to identify the brain functions that are necessary for the…”
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Functions in "Begriffsschrift" by Baker, G. P., Hacker, P. M. S.

“…[...]it implies a fundamental discontinuity between Begriffsschrift and Grundgesetze since the two calculi are related to different conceptions of a function…”
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What Is Wrong Indeed? by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…This is a critical response to Dr. Tamara Dobler's paper “What Is Wrong with Hacker's Wittgenstein? On Grammar, Context and Sense‐Determination.” It…”
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A PLAGUE ON BOTH YOUR "ISMS" by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…Hacker talks about today's "isms" in critical thought. Today's characteristic "isms" come in pairs that purport to be exclusive and exhaustive answers to a…”
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On Davidson's Idea of a Conceptual Scheme by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…Hacker comments on Donald Davidson's paper "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" in which he distinguishes between the hypothesis of total…”
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Davidson on First-Person Authority by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…Davidson’s explanation of first‐person authority in utterance of sentences of the form ‘I V that p’ derives first‐person authority from the requirements of…”
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Davidson on Intentionality and Externalism by Hacker, P.M.S.

“…Davidson has attempted to integrate externalism into his account of meaning and understanding. He contends that what words mean is fixed in part by the…”
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Davidson on the Ontology and Logical Form of Belief by Hacker, P. M. S.

“…Hacker examines Donald Davidson's ontological claims about the nature of belief and his account of the logical form of belief sentences. A belief sentence,…”
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