Sentence examples for hot theory from inspiring English sources

The next hot theory comes not from France or Slovenia but from American laboratories -- by way of evolutionary theorists like E. O. Wilson and Steven Pinker.

Another objection to actualist HOT theory is epistemological, and is due to Goldman (2000).

This aspect of Rosenthal's actualist form of HOT theory would appear to be optional for a HOT theorist, however.

In any case it doesn't seem to be an objection against dispositional HOT theory as such, since it will count equally against any representationalist theory of consciousness.

Goldman also remarks that if actualist HOT theory isn't itself intended as a conceptual analysis of consciousness, then we are owed such an analysis elsewhere in the theory.

In addition, Rowlands (2001) and Jehle and Kriegel (2006) have objected that dispositional HOT theory can't explain the sense in which the phenomenal properties of experience are categorical.

Whatever their respective merits, both HOP and HOT theories face some common challenges, including what might be called thegenerality problem.

Higher-order thought (HOT) theories take the required higher-order state to be an assertoric thought-like meta-state (Rosenthal 1986 , 1993.

Thus the cognitive/computational complexity objections discussed in sections 3 and 4 apply to inner sense theories and to actualist HOT theories, but not to dispositionalist HOT or to some self-representational theories.

And in section 4 we discussed Dretske's (1993) 'spot' objection to actualist higher-order thought theory, as well as Goldman's (2000) epistemological objection, each of which appears to apply only to HOT theories.

Rowlands thinks that HOT theories face a vicious regress because they explain state-consciousness in terms of higher-order thought, and because (Rowlands claims) only conscious thoughts make us aware of the things that those thoughts concern.