It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts nonetheless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

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

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

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.

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