The Given: Experience and its Content

Synopsis

What Is Given To Us In Conscious Experience? Michelle Montague Provides An Answer, And Thus Contributes To A General Theory Of Mental Content. She Analyses Conscious Perception, Conscious Emotion, And Conscious Thought, And Argues That All Experience Essentially Involves Four Things: Content, Intentionality, Phenomenology, And Consciousness. Intentionality, Phenomenology, Consciousness, And Content -- A Brentanian Theory Of Content -- Awareness Of Awareness -- P.f. Strawson's Datum -- Brentanianism, Standard Representationalism, And Fregean Representationalism -- Perception Of Physcial Objects: The Phenomenological Particularity Fact -- Perception Of Physical Objects; The Access Problem -- Cognitvive Phenomenology: What Is Given In Conscious Thought -- Evaluative Phenomenology: What Is Given In Conscious Emotion. Michelle Montague.