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Readership: Students of philosophy of mind, cognitive science, philosophy of psychology
Edited by David J. Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson
"a splendid introduction to the subject ... offers an attractive, timely alternative to the more empirically engaged perspective of Lycan's Mind and Cognition. Teachers, students, and non-specialists looking for a comprehensive overview of issues in the general philosophy of mind, de-emphasizing empirical concerns, need look no further." - Philip Robbins, Philosophical Psychology
Preface 1. FOUNDATIONS A. Dualism 1: René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (II and VI) 2: René Descartes: Passions of the Soul (Excerpt) 3: Thomas H. Huxley: On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata, and Its History (Excerpt) 4: Raymond M. Smullyan: An Unfortunate Dualist B. Behaviorism 5: Gilbert Ryle: Descartes' Myth 6: Rudolf Carnap: Psychology in Physical Language (Excerpt) 7: Hilary Putnam: Brains and Behavior C. The Identity Theory 8: U. T. Place: Is Consciousness a Brain Process? 9: J. J. C. Smart: Sensations and Brain Processes 10: Herbert Feigl: The "Mental" and the "Physical" (Excerpt) D. Functionalism 11: Hilary Putnam: The Nature of Mental States 12: David M. Armstrong: The Causal Theory of the Mind 13: David Lewis: Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications 14: Ned Block: Troubles with Functionalism (Excerpt) 15: Martine Nida-Rümelin: Pseudonormal Vision: An Actual Case of Qualia Inversion? E. Other Psychophysical Relations 16: C. D. Broad: Mechanism and Its Alternatives (Excerpt) 17: Donald Davidson: Mental Events 18: Jerry A. Fodor: Special Sciences 19: Jaegwon Kim: Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction 20: Terence Horgan: From Supervenience to Superdupervenience: Meeting the Demands of a Material World (Excerpt) 21: Frank Jackson: Finding the Mind in the Natural World F. Mental Causation 22: Jaegwon Kim: The Many Problems of Mental Causation (Excerpt) 23: Stephen Yablo: Mental Causation 2. CONSCIOUSNESS A. General 24: Ned Block: Concepts of Consciousness 25: Thomas Nagel: What Is It Like to Be a Bat? 26: Daniel C. Dennett: Quining Qualia 27: David J. Chalmers: Consciousness and Its Place in Nature B. The Knowledge Argument 28: Frank Jackson: Epiphenomenal Qualia 29: David Lewis: What Experience Teaches 30: Brian Loar: Phenomenal States (Second Version) 31: Daniel Stoljar: Two Conceptions of the Physical C. Modal Arguments 32: Saul A. Kripke: Naming and Necessity (Excerpt) 33: Christopher S. Hill: Imaginability, Conceivability, Possibility, and the Mind-Body Problem (Excerpt) 34: Grover Maxwell: Rigid Designators and Mind-Brain Identity (Excerpt) D. The Explanatory Gap 35: Joseph Levine: Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap 36: Paul M. Churchland: The Rediscovery of Light 37: Ned Block and Robert Stalnaker: Conceptual Analysis, Dualism, and the Explanatory Gap 38: Colin McGinn: Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem? E. Higher-Order Thought and Representationalism 39: David M. Rosenthal: Explaining Consciousness 40: Fred Dretske: Conscious Experience 41: Christopher Peacocke: Sensation and the Content of Experience: A Distinction 42: Michael Tye: Visual Qualia and Visual Content Revisited 43: Sydney Shoemaker: Introspection and Phenomenal Character 3. CONTENT A. The Nature of Intentionality 44: Franz Brentano: The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena (Excerpt) 45: Roderick M. Chisholm: "Intentional Inexistence" (Excerpt) 46: Fred Dretske: A Recipe for Thought 47: Ruth Garrett Millikan: Biosemantics 48: Robert Brandom: Reasoning and Representing 49: Terence Horgan and John Tienson: The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality B. Propositional Attitudes 50: Wilfrid Sellars: Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Excerpt) 51: Jerry A. Fodor: Propositional Attitudes 52: Daniel C. Dennett: True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works 53: Paul M. Churchland: Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes C. Internalism and Externalism 54: Hilary Putnam: The Meaning of "Meaning" (Excerpt) 55: Tyler Burge: Individualism and the Mental (Excerpt) 56: David J. Chalmers: The Components of Content (Revised Version) 57: Michael McKinsey: Anti-individualism and Privileged Access 58: Anthony Brueckner: What an Anti-individualist Knows A Priori 59: Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers: The Extended Mind 4. MISCELLANEOUS 60: Derek Parfit: Reductionism and Personal Identity 61: A. J. Ayer: Freedom and Necessity 62: Bertrand Russell: Analogy 63: John R. Searle: Can Computers Think?