Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

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 ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.