ABSTRACT
Psychologist E. C. Tolman, after oering a detailed account of what he took to be mechanisms underlying ‘purposive behavior in animals and men’, turns to the topic of ‘raw feels’, Tolman’s term for purely sensory conscious experiences. Tolman, in common with his twenty-rst century counterparts, sees psychology as in the business of explaining intelligent behavior by reference to various cognitive states and processes, states and processes involving ‘mental representations’, ‘cognitive maps’, and propositional attitudes: beliefs, desires, intentions, and the like. In so doing, psychology would seem to be ignoring the sensory side of our mental lives. is, Tolman notes, leaves us with a mildly embarrassing residue of familiar mental phenomena that fall outside psychology’s explanatory net.
