Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.

The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.