Robert Sokolowski is the Elizabeth Breckenridge Caldwell Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. Twice awarded research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has also served as a consultant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and gave the 26th J. Robert Oppenheimer Lecture there in 1996. He has also served as visiting professor at the Graduate Faculty of the New School University; the University of Texas, Austin; Villanova; and Yale University. Dr Sokolowski is the author of many books, including Introduction to Phenomenology, Moral Action, The God of Faith and Reason, Presence and Absence, and Husserlian Meditations.
Part I. The Form of Thinking: 1. Two ways of saying 'I'
2. Further kinds of declaratives
3. Linguistic syntax and human reason
4. The person as the agent of syntax: predication
5. Reason as public: quotation
6. Grammatical signals and veracity
Part II. The Content of Thinking: 7. The content of what is said: essentials and accidentals
8. Properties and accidents reveal what things are
9. Knowing things in their absence: pictures, imagination, and words
10. Mental representations
11. What is a concept and how do we focus on it?
Part III. The Body and Human Action: 12. The body and the brain
13. Active perception and declaratives
14. Mental images and lenses
15. Forms of wishing
16. Declaring our wishes and choices
Part IV. Ancients and Moderns: 17. Aristotle
18. Thomas Aquinas
19. Conclusion, with Henry James.
