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	Fides Quaerens Intellectum » Externalism about Mental States
		Williamson believes it is a virtue of his approach that mental states would include constituents that are outside one’s head.
		Since (4.) is obviously false, internalism and the thesis that knowledge is a mental state are incompatible with one another — at least one of them is false (or perhaps both).
		Minor point, but I don’t think mental states have parts as states aren’t the sorts of things that are composed [think of my state of anger, this drink’s state of liquidity, etc…].
	blog.johndepoe.com /?p=158 (1075 words)

	American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. - Retrospective Assessment of Mental States in Litigation
		To serve justice, the law calls for evidence of the mental state at the time a crime is committed, of suicide intent in civil litigation, and of mental capacity in contract litigation.
		A philosophical consideration of retrospective assessment of mental states.
		Psychiatric diagnoses and the retrospective assessment of mental states.
	www.appi.org /book.cfm?id=62001 (747 words)

	Costs and Effects of Parity - State Parity Laws, National Mental Health Information Center
		Mental health parity does not prevent insurers from providing a low level of benefits for mental illness by lowering the level of benefits provided for physical illness.
		In all likelihood, the states did this to protect patients by ensuring that their diagnosis and treatment would be provided, or at least supervised, by qualified mental health providers, and to protect insurers by lessening the chances that they would have to reimburse unnecessary or inappropriate care.
		Mandates in nine states mention managed care, primarily to state that managed care plans are included as health insurers covered by the mental health parity requirements, or that mental health benefits covered by the parity law may be delivered in a managed care system.
	www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov /publications/allpubs/Mc99-80/prtych1.asp (1760 words)

	Luca Malatesti, Externalism and the Knowledge of Mental States
		This infallible access can be expressed by saying that if a certain subject believes that she has a certain mental state then she is justified in having that belief, and that she actually has the mental state that is the object of her belief.
		The second premise states that for the compatibilist, accepting that externalism is true, the subject knows a priori that if she has a certain concept then the external conditions that individuate this concept hold.
		In particular, the modal version has been proposed that states that if is it possible that someone could know a priori both p and that p implies q, then it is possible that she could know a priori that q.
	www.swif.uniba.it /lei/mind/texts/t0000006.html (4589 words)

	Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the other of state of mind the child is not yet reflectively aware of his or her disposition to act in a certain habitual way and is prepared only to give this habitual response.
		In order to understand mental states as representational rather than as presentational of states of the world, or of the organism, it may be necessary to conceive of the individual mind as existing outside of a particular time.
		Until children can conceive of their mental states as different at different times and as a function of temporally changing situations, they do not actually have a self of which they are conscious, whose very essence is to exist outside of particular times and to change through them.
	jbarresi.psychology.dal.ca /Papers/Barresi_chapter.htm (8778 words)

	Phil.1000 F' 05 Physicalist Definitions of Mental States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Note that the other 'mental states' mentioned in the functional definition must also be given the same type of definition, so that they too will be merely states of the physical organism (or system).
		E.g., distress, annoyance, etc. will be those states that are caused by environmental effects on the body and by other mental states, cause other mental states of the organism, and cause certain characteristic bodily behavior.
		Functionalists have demonstrated that they can in the final analysis logically eliminate any reference to non-physical mental states and replace all such apparent references this way: pain is the state that causes annoyance, which in turn is the state that is caused by and causes, etc. I.e.
	spot.colorado.edu /~jafisher/1000f05/1000F05HPhysDefs.htm (774 words)

	The Case Against Immortality
		Mental states are correlated with brain states; electrical or chemical stimulation of the human brain invokes perceptions, memories, desires, and other mental states (45).
		The dependence of mental states on the brain during life strongly implies that when the brain dies the mind dies with it, just as a non-duplicated computer program ceases to exist when the computer it runs on is completely destroyed.
		Mental states cannot "half-depend" on the brain; a mental state is either brain-dependent or it is not.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/keith_augustine/immortality.html (10279 words)

	Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - Chapter 1
		Stigmatization of mental illness is an excuse for inaction and discrimination that is inexcusably outmoded in 1999.
		Mental illness emerged from the Global Burden of Disease study as a surprisingly significant contributor to the burden of disease.
		By the late 19th century, mental illness was thought to grow“out of a violation of those physical, mental and moral laws which, properly understood and obeyed, result not only in the highest development of the race, but the highest type of civilization” (cited in Grob, 1983).
	www.surgeongeneral.gov /library/mentalhealth/chapter1/sec1.html (4246 words)

	Mental Health, United States, 2000: Chapter 16.
		When State psychiatric hospital spending is controlled for inflation, State psychiatric hospitals decreased by 17.5 percent from FY 1993 to FY 1997, while inflation-adjusted community mental health expenditures increased 12.6 percent over this period.
		For example, Figure 4 shows that the States with the highest expenditures are concentrated in the northeastern and northwestern regions of the country, while States in the southern part tend to spend the least.
		This map shows that most of the States with a high percentage of their SMHA expenditures devoted to community mental health care tend to be located in the western half of the country.
	www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov /publications/allpubs/SMA01-3537/chapter16.asp (5999 words)

	Fundamental States in Psychoneurosis
		These states do not belong to the patient's normal associative life, but appear to the patient himself as opposed to his usual normal life-activities, they appear to him as dissociated from the rest of his interests, from the rest of associations and psychomotor adjustments.
		During the predominance of the recurrent state, the sense of reality is affected, since the subconscious or dissociated mental states come with an insistency and intensity of the sense of their reality almost directly proportional to the insistency of the recurrent mental state which is truly delusional or even hallucinatory in character.
		In my cases of recurrent mental states, especially of the phobia type, I find on the soil of a sensitive nervous organization the presence of a fundamental state of primitive fear of the unfamiliar and the strange, an instinctive fear characteristic of all animal life, and rooted in the fundamental impulse of self-preservation.
	www.sidis.net /fundamentalstates.htm (2572 words)

	Mental status examination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mental status examination, or MSE, is a medical process where a clinician working in the field of mental health (usually a social worker, psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse or psychologist) systematically examines a patient's mind.
		Affect is the outward show of emotions and mood is the general pervasive emotional state as reported by the patient.
		The level of conscious state is assessed whether it is steady or fluctuating, clouded or clear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mental_status_examination (1357 words)

	Putnam's "The Nature of Mental States"
		No, even though it reduces mental types to functional types (so in one sense it is), the type-type refers to the relationship between mental states and physical states.
		The functional state of a system is instantiated physically - a functional state just is a physical state of some sort or another - but it needn't be the same physical state each time an organism is in the same functional state, and this is the advantage of functionalism over materialism.
		But if, as Shaffer claims, this mental property is not irreducibly mental, but can be reduced to the physical, there is no problem for the type-type view: everything mental (states, events, properties, whatever) can be reduced to the physical.
	www.stanford.edu /~lmaguire/phil186/putnam.htm (1121 words)

	President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health: Press Release
		Navigating this maze is left to the people with the mental illness and their families, who are least equipped to deal with the complexities of the system.
		Mental health, rehabilitation and disability programs unintentionally trap millions of individuals - who want to work - into expensive long-term dependency, the costs of which are staggering.
		They range from school-based mental health care in Dallas; to home visits by trained nurses for high-risk women during pregnancy and the first year of the child's life; to suicide prevention by Air Force generals; and treatment for late-life depression in primary care.
	www.mentalhealthcommission.gov /press/nov1_rpt.htm (810 words)

	Mental Representation (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		RTM defines such intentional mental states as relations to mental representations, and explains the intentionality of the former in terms of the semantic properties of the latter.
		In philosophy, recent debates about mental representation have centered around the existence of propositional attitudes (beliefs, desires, etc.) and the determination of their contents (how they come to be about what they are about), and the existence of phenomenal properties and their relation to the content of thought and perceptual experience.
		That mental processes are computations, that computations are rule-governed sequences of semantically evaluable objects, and that the rules apply to the symbols in virtue of their content, are central tenets of mainstream cognitive science.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/mental-representation (7875 words)

	Philosophy 156: Different Kinds of Mental States
		Representational states can represent that the F is a certain way, and fail to represent that the G is that way, even if the F is the G. For instance, Lois Lane believes that the super-hero who defends Metropolis is strong.
		Many mental states are conscious, and there is some distinctive way it "feels" to be in that mental state.
		When mental states have a distinctive conscious character like this, we say that they are qualitative states, and we call their distinctive "feel" or conscious character their qualitative character.
	www.jimpryor.net /teaching/courses/mind/notes/mentalstates.html (1578 words)

	Mindfulness of Mental States
		The objective of mindfulness of mental states is to realize the nature of the mind, i.e., arising of the mental states, fading (or ending) of mental states.
		Mind can be in states related to senses, states gone beyond the sense sphere (in what is termed as high concentrations or ‘rupavacara jhana’) or states gone beyond these previous states into formless states (‘arupavacara jhana’).
		Due to this awareness or proper mindfulness of the nature of the mind mental states are not grasped with craving.
	houstonbuddhist.freeservers.com /fridaymind6.html (863 words)

	Decoding mental states from brain activity in humans : Article : Nature Reviews Neuroscience
		In theory, if the responses at any brain location differ between two mental states, then it should be possible to use measurements of activity at that brain location to determine which one of those two mental states currently reflects the thinking of the individual.
		For example, in all cases the mental state of an individual was decoded during predefined and extended blocks of trials, during which the participants were either instructed to continuously imagine a cued stimulus, or during which a stimulus or class of stimuli were continuously presented under tight experimental control.
		Even if a specific neural response pattern co-occurs with a mental state under a specific laboratory context, the mental state and pattern might not be necessarily or causally connected; if such a response pattern is found under a different context (such as a real-world situation), this might not be indicative of the mental state.
	www.nature.com /nrn/journal/v7/n7/full/nrn1931.html (8489 words)

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		Chapter Thirty-Six Analysis of Mental States In the Abhidharma, mental states are defined as 'those factors which are associated with consciousness, which arise and perish with consciousness, and which have the same object and bases as consciousness.' This immediately indicates the very close relationship between consciousness (chitta) and mental states (chetasika).
		One- pointedness is a necessary mental state in all types of consciousness because it is one- pointedness that isolates a given object from the undifferentiated stream of objects.
		The nineteen wholesome mental states are occasionally accompanied by six additional ones: the three abstinences (right speech, right action, and right livelihood); the two illimitables or immeasurables (compassion and appreciative joy); and reason or wisdom.
	www.ecst.csuchico.edu /~dsantina/tree/ch36.txt (1750 words)

	Philosophical Critiques: Extranormal Mental States
		Other phenomena, such as the mysterious workings of the hypnotic state, do not appear to be "supernormal," but they certainly do not belong to the "normal" experiences of everyday life; they are, therefore, at least "extranormal." The word "extranormal" can thus be used as a convenient term under which to group these exceptional experiences.
		The hypnotic state is usually characterized by alterations of the character or "personality" of the subject, together with changes of the functions of memory and of perception.
		The state of normal suggestibility is simply increased by the action of suggestion itself, because every idea has the tendency to actuate itself.
	radicalacademy.com /adiphilextranormal1.htm (2546 words)

	Externalism About Mental Content (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		If having a mental state of psychological type T and content C supervenes purely on the intrinsic properties of a subject, then internalism is true of that mental state, and its mental content is said to be “narrow”.
		The modal argument is also criticized in Gibbons (1993), who claims that a belief state token can remain identical to a brain state token, even if its content had been different, as long as we reject the assumption that mental state tokens have their contents essentially.
		Functionalism says that a mental state is defined by its functional role, which includes the relations that the state bears to inputs, outputs and other mental states.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/content-externalism (6592 words)

	Tresorie - Application of homoeopathic Principles in of Mental States [Application Of Homoeopathic Principles In The ...
		Hippocrates stated that disease was cured through a method of treatment which contracts it and a method where the disease of treatment which counteracts it and a method of treatment which counteracts it and a method where the disease is removed through remedies which produce similar symptoms to the disease.
		This concept enables us to treat maladies in their formative state, in state of subjective experiences before the pathologic process has progressed to state of physical diagnosis.
		By so coordinating the relationship between the diseased state and drugs effect and by individualizing the case, the smaller is the effective dose which is necessary, so that there is no chance of doing any harm.
	www.homeoint.org /hompath/articles/0.html (4719 words)

	Abstract: Dissociative Mental States
		This accompanying distraction serves to block awareness of the alteration in mental state and acts to repress the experience of affective withdrawal.
		The author presents a patient with an eating compulsion with whom the primary therapeutic focus was addressing the dissociative activity within the sessions and the alterations of mental states within and outside the treatment setting.
		Goldberg concludes that by distinguishing distractions and the regressive mental states they screen from their more neurotic counterparts one can assist patients in evolving from their pseudo-integrated sanctuaries to a capacity to bring significance to their subjective experience.
	www.cyberpsych.org /pdg/pdgabst5.htm (471 words)

	Interactions between Mental States, Physiology, and Immunity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since physiological states vary greatly in response to the perception of environmental stimuli, it is not surprising that the immune system is also strongly affected by mental states.
		The effects of mental states on immunity are of clinical relevance not only to rats but also to humans, a common expression of which is immunosuppression in response to chronic stress.
		In sum, the conditioning, stress, and sleep studies demonstrate that mental states do indeed have clinically relevant effects on the immune system.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~husn/BRAIN/vol7-spring2000/neuroimmuno.htm (4173 words)

	Belief States and Narrow Content
		That set seems to be a reasonable candidate for the partial belief state by virtue of which I believe that lakes contain water, and hence also to be a reasonable candidate for the set of states which share the same narrow content as my belief that lakes contain water.
		And so, if there is a narrow content which characterizes the partial belief state in question, it is not clear that it will be the narrow content of the belief that lakes contain water, period, as opposed to the narrow content of a collection of related beliefs.
		Since my account counts belief states as different if they would in some possible situation yield different broad beliefs, it counts someone with the sort of belief that London is pretty Pierre first acquired as being in a different belief state than someone with the sort of belief that London is pretty Pierre later acquired.
	www.trinity.edu /cbrown/papers/belstates&narcon.html (8470 words)

	President's New Freedom Commission on MH: Report to the President: Executive Order
		The mission of the Commission shall be to conduct a comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system, including public and private sector providers, and to advise the President on methods of improving the system.
		The Commission's goal shall be to recommend improvements to enable adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances to live, work, learn, and participate fully in their communities.
		All members of the Commission who are officers or employees of the United States shall serve without compensation in addition to that received for their services as officers or employees of the United States.
	www.mentalhealthcommission.gov /reports/FinalReport/ExecOrder.htm (798 words)

	mental
		A mental state is a state which only a creature with a mind can be in.
		But there are mental states (e.g., pain) not reducible to these.
		There is some peculiar way it feels to be in those mental states, e.g., pleasure.
	www.siue.edu /~evailat/mental.html (548 words)

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