Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
acessibilidade incorrigível
English translation:
incorrigible access (to one's own mind/mental states/thoughts); incorrigible self-access
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Michael Powers (PhD)
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acessibilidade incorrigível
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Os tópicos em que podemos subdividir a primeira destas perguntas são os seguintes: a subjectividade, a acessibilidade incorrigível da primeira pessoa, a intencionalidade, a racionalidade, a liberdade, o auto-conhecimento (características sui generis do mental - que aparentemente só se aplicam a sensações corpóreas como dores, a percepções como experiências visuais, auditivas, olfactivas, tácteis e a atitudes proposicionais como crenças e desejos).
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incorrigible access (to one's own mind/mental states/thoughts)
This is the most common way of formulating the concept in English. The formulation comes from Descartes.
"This view reflects the traditional idea, inspired by Descartes, that consciousness gives us infallible or in any case incorrigible access to our own mental states, and indeed that this access exhaustively reveals their mental nature."
davidrosenthal1.googlepages.com/elsevier.pdf
"I need only deny that we are aware of the contents of our thoughts through introspection alone, at least if by introspection one means a direct inward gaze that yields immediate and incorrigible access to the contents
of our thought."
www.stanford.edu/~ktaylor/ascriptions.pdf
"Descartes' method for gaining absolutely certain knowledge is a retreat into himself, which is also a retreat to the foundations of knowledge conceived as incorrigible access to one's own inner states."
www.crispinsartwell.com/books/ARTKNOW.htm
By incorrigible (uncorrectable), Descartes means that our knowledge of our own thoughts is, by its very nature, perfect and infallible (a claim that has been subsequently debated)
"This view reflects the traditional idea, inspired by Descartes, that consciousness gives us infallible or in any case incorrigible access to our own mental states, and indeed that this access exhaustively reveals their mental nature."
davidrosenthal1.googlepages.com/elsevier.pdf
"I need only deny that we are aware of the contents of our thoughts through introspection alone, at least if by introspection one means a direct inward gaze that yields immediate and incorrigible access to the contents
of our thought."
www.stanford.edu/~ktaylor/ascriptions.pdf
"Descartes' method for gaining absolutely certain knowledge is a retreat into himself, which is also a retreat to the foundations of knowledge conceived as incorrigible access to one's own inner states."
www.crispinsartwell.com/books/ARTKNOW.htm
By incorrigible (uncorrectable), Descartes means that our knowledge of our own thoughts is, by its very nature, perfect and infallible (a claim that has been subsequently debated)
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incorrectable accessibility
why not?
Note from asker:
| I can give you a good reason why not. The phrase, "incorrectable accessbility" does not appear together even once on the Internet. It is not possible to fathom that such a phrase even exists. |
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incorrigible self-access/incorrigible acessibility/incorrigible first-person access
Those were the most common phrases regarding identity theory I found.
Regarding frequency based on Google, you want find a lot of hits for "acessibilidade incorrigível" in Portuguese, either. In English, it's more usual to say "incorrigible self-access" for "acessibilidade incorrigível da primeira pessoa". That's not how it's usually phrased, I guess. I hope this helps.
Render Unto Philosophy that Which Is Philosophy'sconcerning the identity of mental states.With what should we identify the mind ... to generate a more plausible descriptivist alternative to that causal theory. .... argued against the incorrigibility of our first-person justification ...
Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview - Google Books Resultby James Porter Moreland, William Lane Craig - 2003 - Religion - 653 pages
Since first-person identification is incorrigible, and since it could not be incorrigible if ... How can a person's identity or nonidentity with a person at ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0830826947...
Members » Sofia Miguens » Anti-reprSo from Putnam, Dennett took not only functionalism as a critique of identity theory but also a characterization of mind as incorrigible self-access to ...
web.letras.up.pt/smiguens/mlag/members/Sofia/Anti-representationalism.html - 62k - Cached - Similar pages
1 D. Dennett’s brand of anti-representationalism: a key to ...also a characterization of mind as incorrigible self-access to functional states. 14 . The result is Intentional Systems Theory (IST henceforth): a moderate ...
thphil.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/index.php/filemanager/download/345/Dennett.pdf - Similar pages
by S Miguens - Related articles
Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories - Google Books Resultby Lorraine Code - 2000 - Social Science - 530 pages
Attending to the ability of first persons to know for themselves is not however a defence of first person incorrigibility with respect to self-knowledge or ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0415132746...
Dispositions, logical states, and mental occurrentsphysical science supplanting first-person incorrigibility, and it means that unlike epistemological criticisms of functionalism my challenge cannot so ...
www.springerlink.com/index/WW40483818674658.pdf - Similar pages
by RC Hoy - 1980 - Cited by 1 - Related articles - All 2 versions
Booktopia - Thinking about Consciousness, David Papineau ...First-Person Incorrigibility, p. 133. Third-Person Uses of Phenomenal Concepts, p. 139. The Explanatory Gap, p. 141. Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, ...
www.booktopia.com.au/thinking-about-consciousness/prod97801... - 35k - Cached - Similar pages
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Note added at 50 mins (2009-03-01 14:58:39 GMT)
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Mike, I only found 4 hits for "acessibilidade incorrível". All of them referring to your text. I believe in English this is just "first-person incorrigibility", or simply "incorrigible accessibility" as shown below:
The Reflexive Nature of Consciousness -
Google Books Resultby Greg Janzen - 2008 - Philosophy - 186 pages
... but, in addition to the term's association with controversial metaphysical notions like incorrigible accessibility, it is also used sometimes to denote ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=9027252084...
Regarding frequency based on Google, you want find a lot of hits for "acessibilidade incorrigível" in Portuguese, either. In English, it's more usual to say "incorrigible self-access" for "acessibilidade incorrigível da primeira pessoa". That's not how it's usually phrased, I guess. I hope this helps.
Render Unto Philosophy that Which Is Philosophy'sconcerning the identity of mental states.With what should we identify the mind ... to generate a more plausible descriptivist alternative to that causal theory. .... argued against the incorrigibility of our first-person justification ...
Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview - Google Books Resultby James Porter Moreland, William Lane Craig - 2003 - Religion - 653 pages
Since first-person identification is incorrigible, and since it could not be incorrigible if ... How can a person's identity or nonidentity with a person at ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0830826947...
Members » Sofia Miguens » Anti-reprSo from Putnam, Dennett took not only functionalism as a critique of identity theory but also a characterization of mind as incorrigible self-access to ...
web.letras.up.pt/smiguens/mlag/members/Sofia/Anti-representationalism.html - 62k - Cached - Similar pages
1 D. Dennett’s brand of anti-representationalism: a key to ...also a characterization of mind as incorrigible self-access to functional states. 14 . The result is Intentional Systems Theory (IST henceforth): a moderate ...
thphil.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/index.php/filemanager/download/345/Dennett.pdf - Similar pages
by S Miguens - Related articles
Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories - Google Books Resultby Lorraine Code - 2000 - Social Science - 530 pages
Attending to the ability of first persons to know for themselves is not however a defence of first person incorrigibility with respect to self-knowledge or ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0415132746...
Dispositions, logical states, and mental occurrentsphysical science supplanting first-person incorrigibility, and it means that unlike epistemological criticisms of functionalism my challenge cannot so ...
www.springerlink.com/index/WW40483818674658.pdf - Similar pages
by RC Hoy - 1980 - Cited by 1 - Related articles - All 2 versions
Booktopia - Thinking about Consciousness, David Papineau ...First-Person Incorrigibility, p. 133. Third-Person Uses of Phenomenal Concepts, p. 139. The Explanatory Gap, p. 141. Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, ...
www.booktopia.com.au/thinking-about-consciousness/prod97801... - 35k - Cached - Similar pages
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Note added at 50 mins (2009-03-01 14:58:39 GMT)
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Mike, I only found 4 hits for "acessibilidade incorrível". All of them referring to your text. I believe in English this is just "first-person incorrigibility", or simply "incorrigible accessibility" as shown below:
The Reflexive Nature of Consciousness -
Google Books Resultby Greg Janzen - 2008 - Philosophy - 186 pages
... but, in addition to the term's association with controversial metaphysical notions like incorrigible accessibility, it is also used sometimes to denote ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=9027252084...
Note from asker:
| Thank you for your diligent research. This helps a lot. Of course, I am going to wait and get more feedback from more of our colleagues. - Mike :) |
| Interesting - that explains whey I had difficulty in finding an adequate answer myself. Once again thanks for all your hard work, Bentevi - Mike :) |
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