1. EITHER: (a) Can we helpfully understand introspection as akin to
perception?
OR: (b) Is the way in which we learn about others’ mental states
fundamentally different from the way in which we learn about our own?
2. What is it that you come to understand when you realize that your pants
are on fire?
3. Does our capacity to imagine zombies tell us anything of interest about the
nature of consciousness?
4. Must conscious states be about something?
5. Can I have conscious states that I can’t access?
6. ‘Cut the pie anyway you like, “meanings” just ain’t in the head!’ (PUTNAM)
Should we agree?
7. What can teleological theories of content do that causal theories cannot?
8. ‘Seeing is believing.’ Discuss.
9. EITHER: (a) Is it helpful to see intentions as promises to oneself?
OR: (b) Is succumbing to temptation just a case of changing one’s mind
about what’s best?
10. What state am I in when I want Romeo and Juliet to live happily ever
after?