What is the role of observation in our knowledge of our own mental states?

Is knowledge of other minds necessarily inferential?
April 6, 2023
Do we have privileged access to our own mental states?
April 6, 2023

What is the role of observation in our knowledge of our own mental states?

1. What is the role of observation in our knowledge of our own mental
states?
2. Do we make judgments about the mental states of others by means of a
theory?
3. What makes the hard problem of consciousness hard? Should we expect
it to have a solution?
4. EITHER (a) Does pain represent anything?
OR (b) ‘Lots of people have unconscious thoughts about their thoughts.’
Discuss with reference to philosophical theories of consciousness.
5. Does our ability to think about things that do not exist show that
intentional states are not relational in nature?
6. Where does content fit in a naturalistic world?
7. If a thought is outside of my head, how can it get me to do anything?
8. ‘The only criterion of what people really want, and of what they really like,
is what they do.’ Is that right?
9. Has the judgment theory of emotion been refuted?
10. Can we only imagine what we have experienced?