philosophy of mind

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1	Introduction
	1.1	Appearance and Reality
	1.2	The Unavoidability of the Philosophy of Mind
	1.3	Science and Metaphysics
	1.4	Metaphysics and Cognitive Science
	1.5	A Look Ahead
	Suggested Reading
2	Cartesian Dualism
	2.1	Science and Philosophy
	2.2	Descartes’s Dualism
	2.3	Substances, Attributes, Modes
	2.4	The Metaphysics of Cartesian Dualism
	2.5	Mind–Body Interaction
	2.6	A Causally Closed Universe
	Suggested Reading
3	Descartes’s Legacy
	3.1	Dualism Without Interaction: Parallelism
	3.2	Occasionalism
	3.3	Causation and Occasionalism
	3.4	Idealism
	3.5	Mind and Meaning
	3.6	Epiphenomenalism
	3.7	Coda: Non-Cartesian Dualism
	Suggested Reading
4	Mind and Behavior
	4.1	Moving Away From Dualism
	4.2	Historical and Philosophical Background
	4.3	Other Minds
	4.4	The Beetle in the Box
	4.5	Philosophical Behaviorism
	4.6	Dispositions
	4.7	Behavioral Analysis
	4.8	Sensation
	4.9	The Legacy of Philosophical Behaviorism
	4.10	Intrinsic Characteristics
	4.11	‘Experimental Methods and Conceptual Confusion’
	4.12	Psychological Behaviorism
	4.13	The Demise of Behaviorism
	4.14	Behavior
	Suggested Reading
5	The Identity Theory
	5.1	From Correlation to Identification
	5.2	Parsimony
	5.3	Self-Conscious Thought
	5.4	Locating Mental Qualities
	5.5	Substances, Properties, States, and Events
	5.6	Predicates and Properties
	5.7	Strict Identity
	5.8	Leibniz’s Law
	5.9	The $64 Question
	5.10	The Phenomenological Fallacy
	5.11	Epistemological Loose Ends
	5.12	Taking Stock
	Suggested Reading
6	Functionalism
	6.1	The Rise of Functionalism
	6.2	The Functionalist Picture
	6.3	Abstraction as Partial Consideration
	6.4	Minds as Programs
	6.5	Functional Explanation
	6.6	Functionalist Metaphysics
	6.7	Functionalism and Materialism
	6.8	Functional Properties
	6.9	Mental Properties as Functional Properties
	6.10	Functionalism and Behaviorism
	6.11	Characterizing Functional States
	6.12	Functional Systems Generally
	6.13	Moving Beyond Analogy
	Suggested Reading
7	The Representational Theory of Mind
	7.1	Mental Representation
	7.2	Semantic Engines
	7.3	Minds as Semantic Engines
	7.4	The Turing Test
	7.5	The Chinese Room
	7.6	From Syntax to Semantics
	7.7	Thinking as Computing
	7.8	Levels of Description
	7.9	From Taxonomy to Ontology
	7.10	Layers of Reality
	Suggested Reading
8	Radical Interpretation
	8.1	Minds as Constructs
	8.2	The Propositional Attitudes
	8.3	Semantic Opacity
	8.4	Radical Interpretation: Background Issues
	8.5	T-Theories
	8.6	From T-Theories to I-Theories
	8.7	Decision Theory
	8.8	Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing?
	8.9	Charity
	8.10	Indeterminacy
	8.11	The Omniscient Interpreter
	8.12	Interpretation and Measurement
	8.13	Structure and Content
	8.14	Mental Causation and the Propositional Attitudes
	8.15	An Apparent Regress
	Suggested Reading
9	The Intentional Stance
	9.1	From Davidson to Dennett
	9.2	Taking a Stance
	9.3	From Intentional Stance to Design Stance
	9.4	From Design Stance to Physical Stance
	9.5	The Emerging Picture
	9.6	Thought and Language
	9.7	Kinds of Mind
	9.8	Consciousness
	9.9	Searle’s Objection
	Suggested Reading
10	Eliminativism
	10.1	From Instrumentalism to Eliminativism
	10.2	Ontological Commitment
	10.3	Theories and Theory Reduction
	10.4	Stich’s Argument
	10.5	Prospects for Reduction or Elimination
	10.6	Is Eliminativism Self-Refuting?
	Suggested Reading
11	Non-Reductive Physicalism
	11.1	From Substances to Properties
	11.2	Substance Monism, Property Dualism
	11.3	Mental Causation: Background Issues
	11.4	Mental–Physical Supervenience
	11.5	Causal Relevance
	11.6	The Causal Relevance of Mental Properties
	11.7	The Challenge of Causal Relevance
	11.8	Jettisoning Higher-Level Properties
	11.9	The Upshot
	Suggested Reading
12	Consciousness
	12.1	The Status of ‘Raw Feels’
	12.2	The Mystery of Consciousness
	12.3	Qualities of Conscious Experiences
	12.4	Zombies
	12.5	Biting the Bullet
	12.6	Contrary Mary
	12.7	Representationalism
	12.8	Consciousness as Higher-Order Representation
	12.9	Explaining Consciousness
	Suggested Reading
13	Emergence and Panpsychism
	13.1	Emergence
	13.2	‘Downward Causation’
	13.3	Panpsychism
	13.4	Emergence or Panpsychism?
	Suggested Reading
14	The Mind’s Place in Nature
	14.1	Applied Metaphysics
	14.2	Multiple Realizability and Levels of Reality
	14.3	Zapping Zombies
	14.4	Qualities of Conscious Experience
	14.5	Imagery and Intentionality
	14.6	Putting Imagery to Work
	14.7	Twin-Earth
	14.8	Intentionality Delivered
	14.9	Functionalism Adieu
	14.10	Dénouement
	14.11	An Affectionate Farewell
	Suggested Reading
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Index