Boundaries of the Mind: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences

Half-title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents in Brief......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
List of Tables and Figures......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 16
PART ONE DISCIPLINING THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE MIND......Page 22
1 INDIVIDUALS AND THE MIND......Page 24
2 INDIVIDUALS AND SCIENCE......Page 25
3 THE FRAGILE SCIENCES......Page 29
4 INDIVIDUALISM IN THE COGNITIVE, BIOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES......Page 30
5 INSIDE THE THINKING INDIVIDUAL......Page 35
6 THE BEAST WITHIN......Page 38
7 CULTURE, NATURE, AND THE INDIVIDUAL......Page 40
8 THE METAPHYSICAL PICTURE: SMALLISM......Page 43
9 A PATH THROUGH BOUNDARIES OF THE MIND......Page 45
1 PSYCHOLOGY AMONGST THE FRAGILE SCIENCES......Page 48
2 THE DISCIPLINING OF PSYCHOLOGY......Page 51
3 FROM PHYSIOLOGY TO PHILOSOPHY: WUNDT AND JAMES......Page 52
4 DISCIPLINING THE SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE MIND......Page 57
5 WUNDT’S INDIVIDUALS......Page 61
6 GALTON’S INDIVIDUALS......Page 62
7 NATIVISM AND THE CONTINUITY THESIS......Page 66
8 OVERLAYING THE MIND......Page 69
1 NATIVIST THREADS......Page 71
2 FROM CHOMSKY TO FODOR TO PINKER: A THUMBNAIL......Page 72
3 EMPIRICIST ALTERNATIVES TO NATIVISM......Page 75
4 THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL APPROACH......Page 77
5 MAKING DO WITH LESS?......Page 81
6 SATISFYING SOME DESIDERATA......Page 86
7 BUT COULD TWO DIMENSIONS BE ENOUGH?......Page 88
8 NATIVISM ABOUT COGNITION AND BIOLOGY......Page 89
9 CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND NATIVISM......Page 93
PART TWO INDIVIDUALISM AND EXTERNALISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES......Page 96
1 MAKING SENSE OF THE INDIVIDUALISM-EXTERNALISM DEBATE......Page 98
2 INDIVIDUALISM, TAXONOMY, AND METAPHYSICAL DETERMINATION......Page 100
3 GETTING TO TWIN EARTH: WHAT’S IN THE HEAD?......Page 103
4 THE SOCIAL ASPECT TO HAVING A MIND......Page 108
5 NARROW AND WIDE CONTENT......Page 111
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6 FUNCTIONALISM, PHYSICALISM, AND INDIVIDUALISM......Page 114
7 THE APPEAL TO CAUSAL POWERS......Page 117
8 METAPHYSICS AND THE FRAGILE SCIENCES......Page 119
1 THE METAPHYSICS OF MIND AND THE FRAGILE SCIENCES......Page 121
2 REALIZATION WITHIN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND......Page 122
3 A SKETCH OF TWO VIEWS OF REALIZATION......Page 123
4 THE STANDARD VIEW (I): REALIZERS AS METAPHYSICALLY SUFFICIENT......Page 124
5 THE STANDARD VIEW (II): REALIZERS AS PHYSICALLY CONSTITUTIVE......Page 125
6 SMALLISM, THE STANDARD VIEW, AND THE FRAGILE SCIENCES......Page 126
7 CONTEXT-SENSITIVE REALIZATION AND METAPHYSICAL SUFFICIENCY......Page 128
8 PHYSICAL CONSTITUTIVITY AND WIDE REALIZATIONS......Page 132
9 WIDE REALIZATIONS IN THE BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES......Page 135
10 TWO VIEWS RECONSIDERED......Page 138
1 ADJUSTING ONE’S METAPHYSICS......Page 141
2 MICROPHYSICAL DETERMINISM, RELATIONS, AND SMALLISM......Page 142
3 DISPOSITIONS AND SCIENCE......Page 146
4 NONREDUCTIVE MATERIALISM......Page 149
5 THE MODIFIED STANDARD VIEW: CAUSATION AND REALIZATION......Page 151
6 CONTEXT SENSITIVITY WITHIN THE STANDARD VIEW......Page 154
7 KEEPING REALISM AFLOAT......Page 158
8 PLURALISM ABOUT REALIZATION......Page 160
9 ABANDONING THE SUBJECT?......Page 162
10 PUTTING OUR METAPHYSICS TO WORK......Page 164
1 THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE GESTURE......Page 165
2 INDIVIDUALISM IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE......Page 166
3 MENTAL REPRESENTATION AS ENCODING......Page 168
4 THE DEBATE OVER MARR’S THEORY OF VISION......Page 171
5 SEGAL AND EGAN ON COMPUTATION AND REPRESENTATION......Page 176
6 EXPLOITATIVE REPRESENTATION AND WIDE COMPUTATIONALISM......Page 183
7 NARROW CONTENT AND MARR’S THEORY......Page 193
8 LOCATIONAL VERSUS TAXONOMIC EXTERNALISM......Page 195
9 HAVING IT BOTH WAYS?......Page 199
10 BEYOND COMPUTATION......Page 200
PART THREE THINKING THROUGH AND BEYOND THE BODY......Page 202
1 REPRESENTATION AND PSYCHOLOGY......Page 204
2 LIFE AND MIND: FROM REACTION TO THOUGHT......Page 205
3 THE EMBEDDEDNESS AND EMBODIMENT OF HIGHER COGNITION......Page 208
4 MEMORY......Page 210
5 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT......Page 219
6 FOLK PSYCHOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF MIND......Page 227
7 THE MIND BEYOND ITSELF......Page 231
1 THE RETURN OF THE CONSCIOUS......Page 235
2 PROCESSES OF AWARENESS AND PHENOMENAL STATES......Page 236
3 EXPANDING THE CONSCIOUS MIND: PROCESSES OF AWARENESS......Page 238
4 ARGUING FOR EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 242
5 GLOBAL EXTERNALISM AND PHENOMENAL STATES......Page 246
6 TESEE AND SENSORY EXPERIENCE......Page 253
7 INDIVIDUALISTIC RESIDUES......Page 259
8 GLOBAL EXTERNALISM AND THE TESEE VIEW......Page 261
1 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTENTIONALITY AND PHENOMENOLOGY......Page 263
2 DIMENSIONS OF THE INSEPARABILITY THESIS......Page 265
3 DEFLATING THE INSEPARABILITY THESIS......Page 267
4 PHENOMENAL INTENTIONALITY......Page 273
5 INDIVIDUALISM AND PHENOMENAL INTENTIONALITY......Page 276
6 HOW TO BE A GOOD PHENOMENOLOGIST......Page 281
PART FOUR THE COGNITIVE METAPHOR IN THE BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES......Page 284
1 GROUP MINDS AND THE COGNITIVE METAPHOR IN THE BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES......Page 286
2 TWO TRADITIONS......Page 288
3 THE COLLECTIVE PSYCHOLOGY TRADITION......Page 290
4 THE SUPERORGANISM TRADITION......Page 295
5 GROUP MINDS AND THE SOCIAL MANIFESTATION THESIS......Page 301
6 COLLECTIVE PSYCHOLOGY, SUPERORGANISMS, AND SOCIALLY MANIFESTED MINDS......Page 303
7 FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT......Page 305
1 REVIVING THE GROUP MIND......Page 307
2 ON HAVING A MIND......Page 309
3 MINIMAL MINDS, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND HOLISM......Page 314
4 THE CONTEMPORARY DEFENSE OF THE GROUP MIND HYPOTHESIS......Page 316
5 THE SOCIAL MANIFESTATION THESIS......Page 320
6 THE COGNITIVE AND THE SOCIAL......Page 323
7 FROM GROUP MINDS TO GROUP SELECTION......Page 324
8 GROUPS, MINDS, AND INDIVIDUALS......Page 327
1: The Individual and the Mind......Page 330
2: Individuals, Psychology, and the Mind......Page 332
3: Nativism on My Mind......Page 334
4: Individualism: Philosophical Foundations......Page 337
5: Metaphysics, Mind, and Science: Two Views of Realization......Page 339
6: Context-Sensitive Realizations......Page 341
7: Representation, Computation, and Cognitive Science......Page 342
8: The Embedded Mind and Cognition......Page 345
9: Expanding Consciousness......Page 348
10: Intentionality and Phenomenology......Page 350
11: Group Minds in Historical Perspective......Page 352
12: The Group Mind Hypothesis in Contemporary Biology and Social Science......Page 353
References......Page 356
Index......Page 376