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Author(s) -
MCKINSEY MICHAEL
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2008.00232.x
Subject(s) - citation , state (computer science) , library science , computer science , philosophy , algorithm
It seems perfectly obvious that we all very frequently have thoughts that are directed upon or are about particular objects in the external world, including other persons as well as a vast number of types of ordinary physical thing. But the problem of what makes our thoughts and other cognitive attitudes about particular objects is extremely difficult. The problem received much attention from many skilled philosophers from the 1960s until the mid-1980s. But since then, the problem has received scant attention, even though I think no general consensus had been achieved regarding the form that a correct solution should take.1