Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing

Contents\nPreface and Acknowledgments\n1. Toward a Natural Philosophy of Mind\n	1.1 The Folk Theory of Disembodied Knowing\n	1.2 Out of the Cave\n	1.3 The Embodied Mind Perspective\n	1.4 Meaningful Mind Science\n	1.5 The Cautionary Tale of the Two Cultures of the Academy\n	1.6 The Plan of This Book\n2. The Philosophical Quest for Ultimate Knowledge\n	2.1 The Need for a Theory of Embodied Knowing\n	2.2 The Metaphysics of Eternal, Unchanging Knowledge in a Precarious World\n	2.3 Aristotle’s Bifurcation of Theoretical versus Practical Knowledge\n	2.4 Descartes and the Quest for Certainty\n	2.5 The Kantian Turn: Philosophy as Epistemology\n	2.6 The Linguistic Turn Away from the Body\n3. The Intertwining of Self and Knowledge\n	3.1 The Relation of Self and Knowledge in Modern Philosophy\n	3.2 Descartes’s Fixed, Pre-given, Disembodied Self\n	3.3 Hume’s No Self\n	3.4 Kant’s Co-constitution of Self and World\n	3.5 Toward a Naturalistic Philosophy of Mind and Knowing\n4. A Pragmatist Naturalistic Framework for Embodied Mind and Knowing\n	4.1 Organism-Environment Interaction as the Source of Experience\n	4.2 Life and Homeostasis within an Organism in Its Environment\n	4.3 Knowing Is Based on Values of the Organism\n	4.4 Knowing in the Context of Need-Search-Satisfaction\n	4.5 The Social Constitution of Mind\n	4.6 Knowing as a Process of Learning the Meaning of Things\n	4.7 Knowing as Intelligent Experiential Transformation\n	4.8 The Stages of Reflective Inquiry and the Reduction of Indeterminacy\n	4.9 Knowing as Embodied, Situated, Intelligent Action\n5. The Challenge of a Meaningful Science of Mind: The Quest for an Objective Human Science\n	5.1 Toward a More Meaningful Cognitive Science\n	5.2 The Natural Subjective Perspective in American Pragmatism\n	5.3 Freudian Insight, Hubris, and the Rejection of Psychoanalysis\n	5.4 Unconscious Bias and the Critical Logic of Objective Truth\n	5.5 Psychology’s Ideal of Pristine Objectivity\n	5.6 Machines Like Us\n	5.7 First-Generation Cognitive Science\n	5.8 Second-Generation Cognitive Science: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Natural Philosophy\n	5.9 Cognitive Neuroscience in Dialogue with the Humanities\n	5.10 Artificial Intelligence and the Fifth Revolution\n	5.11 Realizing the Embodied Self\n6. Embodied Meaning and Thought\n	6.1 The Body in the Mind\n	6.2 Image Schemas as Embodied Meaning Structures\n	6.3 Body-Based Action Concepts\n	6.4 The Simulation Theory of Meaning and Thought\n	6.5 Embodied Abstract Concepts: Conceptual Metaphors\n	6.6 Conceptual Metaphors for Mind\n	6.7 Conceptual Metaphors for Knowing\n	6.8 The Cognitive Unconscious\n7. The Mind’s Anatomy\n	7.1 Nature’s Evolutionary Developmental Process\n	7.2 Levels of Neural Organization\n	7.3 The Integration of Mind at the Limbic Core\n	7.4 Interpreting the Mind’s Connectional Architecture: How Expectations Shape Perception\n8. How Information Is Captured by Neural Networks\n	8.1 Deep AI\n	8.2 Levels of Human Knowing\n	8.3 Cognitive Control at the Limbic Core\n	8.4 The Unconscious Consolidation of Experience\n	8.5 The Motivated, Value-Laden Roots of Cognition\n	8.6 The Anatomy of Subjective Experience\n	8.7 Shifting Attention between Visceral and Somatic Constraints\n	8.8 The Adaptive Unconscious: A Summary\n9. The Motive Control of Experience\n	9.1 Motive Control of Neural Development\n	9.2 From Reflex to Uncertainty\n	9.3 Learning Is Cognition, and Cognition Is Motivated Expectancy\n	9.4 The Two-Way Process of Memory Consolidation\n	9.5 Knowing Favors the Prepared Mind\n	9.6 The Limbic Control of Uncertainty\n	9.7 Dual Corticolimbic Pathways for Tuning Expectancy\n	9.8 The Expansive Holism of Elation\n	9.9 The Focus of Anxiety\n	9.10 Tonic and Phasic Modes for Managing Uncertainty\n	9.11 Elation and Context Learning\n	9.12 Anxiety and Object Learning\n	9.13 Implicit Adaptive Controls and the Feeling of Knowing\n10. What Is a Concept? The Influence of Motive Control on the Formation of Concepts and Personality\n	10.1 Developing the Structure of Abstract Concepts through Differentiation and Integration\n	10.2 Motive Control in Simple Actions\n	10.3 Motive Control in Personal Decisions\n	10.4 The Unconscious Process of Adaptive Self-Control\n	10.5 Mind Emerges from the Concrete Unconscious\n	10.6 The Semantic Scaffold\n	10.7 The Continuity of Neural Control\n11. Abstraction, Self-Awareness, and the Subjective Basis of Knowledge\n	11.1 Abstraction Is the Process of Concept Formation\n	11.2 Complexity of Knowledge Creates Complexity of the Self\n	11.3 The Subjective Cost of Knowledge\n	11.4 Abstraction through Self-Awareness\n	11.5 Self-Regulating the Motive Control of Conscious Intent\n	11.6 Personality and the Adaptive Control of the Executive Functions\n	11.7 The Intersubjective Construction of Self and World\n	11.8 The Process of Knowing in Science\n	11.9 The Dialectical Progress of Scientific Knowledge\n	11.10 The Subjective Foundations of Objective Knowledge\n12. Outline for a Contemporary Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing\n	12.1 A Scientific Epistemology\n	12.2 Implications for the Nature of Mind and Knowing\n	12.3 Who Are We? Knowing in the Embodied Mind\nReferences\nIndex