If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they are formal because they apply to representations, in virtue of (roughly) the syntax of the representations.

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is put together: not all natural kinds (not all the classes of things and events about which there are important, counterfactual supporting generalizations to make) are, or correspond to, physical natural kinds.

Who wins a... competition [between two traits] is massively context sensitive.