Mind, Reason and Imagination: Selected Essays in Philosophy of Mind and Language

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Sources......Page 13
1 Introduction......Page 17
Part One Mind, Theory and Imagination......Page 25
1. TWO STRATEGIES......Page 27
2. SOME OBJECTIONS TO THE REPLICATION HYPOTHESIS......Page 30
3. PROSPECTS FOR A RECONCILIATION......Page 34
4. COROLLARIES OF THE REPLICATION STRATEGY......Page 38
3 Understanding Other Minds from the Inside......Page 44
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 61
2. THE CENTRAL NOTIONS......Page 62
3. FOUR IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT THINKING......Page 66
4. SIMULATION, RELEVANCE AND THE FRAME PROBLEM......Page 70
5. CONTENT AND NON-CONTENT......Page 75
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 79
2. THE STORY SO FAR......Page 80
3. COGNITIVE PENETRABILITY......Page 84
4. SIMULATION AND THE EXERCISE OF SKILL......Page 87
5. THE DOMAIN OF SIMULATION......Page 91
6. SOME WRONG PREDICTIONS AND WHY WE MAKE THEM......Page 98
Part Two Thought and Reason......Page 105
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 107
2. SOME BACKGROUND IDEAS AND THE TWO PROPOSALS......Page 109
3. THEORY THEORY AND THOUGHTS AS AN INDEPENDENT SUBJECT MATTER......Page 116
4. CONDITIONALS......Page 119
5. THE RELATION OF THE A PRIORI AND A POSTERIORI CLAIMS......Page 124
6. RESPONSE TO STICH AND NICHOLS......Page 128
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 131
2. WHAT IS HOLISM?......Page 132
3. HOLISM AND BELIEF......Page 136
4. WHY THOUGHTS HANG TOGETHER......Page 138
5. WHY THOUGHTS COME IN GROUPS......Page 144
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 147
2. TWO CONSTRUALS OF CO-COGNITIVE REASONING......Page 148
Schema I......Page 150
Schema II......Page 151
3. THREE INCONCLUSIVE ARGUMENTS......Page 154
4. RATIONALITY......Page 158
5. SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES......Page 160
AFTERNOTE: GOOD BAD REASONING......Page 163
Part Three Indexical Predicates and Their Applications......Page 167
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 169
2. REFERENCE, PREDICATION AND INDEXICALITY......Page 170
3. INDEXICAL PREDICATES......Page 175
4. PREDICATION AND LOGICAL FORM......Page 179
5. MORE ASPECTS OF INDEXICAL PREDICATION......Page 183
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 190
2. INDEXICAL PREDICATION......Page 191
3. SOME USES FOR INDEXICAL PREDICATIVE LOCUTIONS......Page 192
4. NOTATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS......Page 195
5. WAYS OF REPORTING SPEECH......Page 197
6. DIRECT SPEECH REPORTS......Page 198
7. REPORTING MEANING......Page 200
8. INDIRECT SPEECH REPORTS......Page 202
9. PROPOSITIONS AND FORMALISATION......Page 205
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 212
2. CONCEPTS......Page 215
3. A NON-STARTER?......Page 218
4. INDEXICAL PREDICATION AND LAGADONIAN KINDS......Page 221
5. REPRESENTING CONTENT......Page 227
6. REPRESENTING ATTITUDES......Page 232
7. CODA – THE NATURE OF THE MENTAL......Page 236
Part Four Thinking of Minds and Interacting with Persons......Page 239
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 241
2. RATIONALITY, PREDICTION AND ELIMINATIVISM......Page 243
3. AN AVENUE OF ESCAPE?......Page 247
4. ANOTHER ARGUMENT FOR ELIMINATIVISM......Page 250
5. A TWO-ELEMENT CONCEPTION OF RATIONALITY......Page 253
6. PREDICTION, DISCUSSION AND EXCUSE......Page 257
7. ELIMINATIVISM AGAIN......Page 261
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 266
2. TWO APPROACHES TO A SOLUTION......Page 267
3. MOORE’S ANSWER AND RELATIVES......Page 269
4. FUNCTIONALISM AND THE PARADOX......Page 275
5. WHY FUNCTIONALISM CANNOT RECOGNISE THE PARADOX......Page 281
6. A WITTGENSTEINIAN ACCOUNT AGAIN......Page 284
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 289
2. THE CONUNDRUM OF FIRST-PERSON AUTHORITY......Page 290
3. PROMISING AND AUTHORITY......Page 293
4. PERFORMATIVES......Page 298
5. AVOWALS AND AUTHORITY......Page 300
References......Page 305
Index......Page 313