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Head Colds and Thoughts in the Head

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

T. S. Champlin
Affiliation:
University of Hull

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‘There just has to be some connection between thinking and what goes on in my head when I am thinking,’ said someone to me recently. ‘When I am thinking,’ he continued, ‘the thinking is going on in here’, at which he pointed with his forefinger at his head. I indicated mild dissent. ‘You seem to me to be overlooking plain facts,’ he retorted. ‘There are thoughts in my head. Nothing could make me doubt that. If I am given a complicated calculation to do, I might start off by trying to do it in my head (once again, pointing at his head) but, finding it too hard, I might continue the calculation I had begun in my head on paper, on the table in front of me (now pointing at an imaginary piece of paper in front of him). The calculation started off being done in my head and finished up being done on paper.’

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1989

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