Preface to the Third Edition ................................... xi
Preface to the First Edition .................................. xii
Acknowledgments .............................................. xiii
Part I. Ontology: The Identity Theory and Functionalism ...... 1
Introduction .................................................... 3
Behaviorism .................................................... 15
1. Excerpt from About Behaviorism
B.F. Skinner ....................................... 17
The Identity Theory and Machine Functionalism .................. 23
2. Is Consciousness a Brain Process?
U.T. Place .......................................... 25
3. The Causal Theory of the Mind
D.M. Armstrong ......................................... 31
4. The Nature of Mental States
Hilary Putnam ....................................... 40
5. Troubles with Functionalism (excerpt)
Ned Block ........................................... 48
Anomalous Monism ............................................... 53
6. Mental Events
Donald Davidson ..................................... 55
Homuncular and Teleological Functionalism ...................... 67
7. The Continuity of Levels of Nature
William G. Lycan .................................... 69
Part II. Intentionality ...................................... 85
Introduction ................................................... 87
Psychosemantics ................................................ 93
8. Information and Representation
Jerry A. Fodor ...................................... 95
9. Biosemantics
Ruth Garrett Millikan .............................. 105
10. A Guide to Naturalizing Semantics (excerpt)
Barry Loewer ....................................... 116
Other Approaches to Intentionality ............................ 125
11. Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality
Robert Brandom ..................................... 127
Part III. The Computational Theory of Mind and Artificial
Intelligence ....................................... 143
Introduction .................................................. 145
The Language of Thought and Computationalism .................. 151
12. Why There Has to Be and How There Could Be
a Private Language
Jerry A. Fodor ..................................... 153
13. Which Language Do We Think With?
Peter Carruthers ................................... 171
Artificial Intelligence ....................................... 193
14. Semantic Engines: An Introduction to Mind Design
John Haugeland ..................................... 195
15. Can Computers Think?
John R. Searle ..................................... 213
Part IV. Eliminativism, Neurophilosophy, and
Anti-Representationalism ........................... 221
Introduction .................................................. 223
Eliminativism ................................................. 229
16. Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional
Attitudes
Paul M. Churchland ................................. 231
Connectionism ................................................. 245
17. Neural Representation and Neural Computation
Patricia Smith Churchland and Terrence Sejnowski ... 247
18. Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture (excerpt)
Jerry A. Fodor and Zenon W. Pylyshyn ............... 269
Dynamical Systems Theory and Robotics ......................... 273
19. What Might Cognition Be, If Not Computation?
Tim Van Gelder ..................................... 275
20. Intelligence Without Representation
Rodney A. Brooks ................................... 298
Part V. Instrumentalism and Folk Psychology ................. 313
Introduction .................................................. 315
Instrumentalism ............................................... 321
21. True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and
Why it Works
Daniel C. Dennett .................................. 323
22. Dennett on Intentional Systems
Stephen P. Stich ................................... 337
23. Real Patterns
Daniel C. Dennett .................................. 351
Simulationism and the Theory Theory ........................... 367
24. Folk Psychology as Simulation
Robert M. Gordon ................................... 369
25. Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory?
(excerpt)
Stephen P. Stich and Shaun Nichols ................. 379
Part VI. Mental Causation, Externalism, and
Self-Knowledge ..................................... 393
Introduction .................................................. 395
For and Against Folk Psychology ............................... 403
26. Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis
Stephen P. Stich ................................... 405
27. Folk Psychology is Here to Stay
Terence Horgan and James Woodward .................. 419
Supervenient Causation ........................................ 437
28. Mental Causation
Jaegwon Kim ........................................ 439
29. Type Epiphenomenalism, Type Dualism, and the Causal
Priority of the Physical
Brian P. McLaughlin ................................ 459
For and Against Externalism ................................... 475
30. Individualism and Supervenience
Jerry A. Fodor ..................................... 477
31. The Argument from Causal Powers
Robert A. Wilson ................................... 497
32. Reference, Causal Powers, Externalist Intuitions
and Unicorns
Gabriel M.A. Segal ................................. 515
Self-Knowledge ................................................ 527
33. Knowing One's Own Mind
Donald Davidson .................................... 529
34. Externalism and Inference
Paul A. Boghossian ................................. 543
Radical Externalism ........................................... 553
35. The Extended Mind
Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers ................... 555
Part VII. Consciousness, Qualia, and Subjectivity ............ 565
Introduction .................................................. 567
What Is Consciousness? ........................................ 573
36. How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of
Consciousness
Ned Block ........................................... 575
37. What Should We Expect from a Theory of
Consciousness?
Patricia S. Churchland ............................. 583
38. Consciousness and its Place in Nature (excerpt)
David J. Chalmers .................................. 595
Conscious Awareness ........................................... 603
39. A Theory of Consciousness (excerpt)
David M. Rosenthal ................................. 605
40. The Superiority of HOP to HOT
William G. Lycan ................................... 617
41. Perception without Awareness
Fred Dretske ....................................... 630
What It's Like ................................................ 655
42. Epiphenomenal Qualia
Frank Jackson ...................................... 657
43. Understanding the Phenomenal Mind: Are We All Just
Armadillos?
Robert Van Gulick ................................... 664
Qualia ........................................................ 679
44. The Intrinsic Quality of Experience
Gilbert Harman ..................................... 681
45. Sensation and the Content of Experience
Christopher Peacocke ............................... 693
46. Blurry Images, Double Vision, and Other Oddities:
New Problems for Representationalism?
Michael Tye ........................................ 707
Part VIII. Perceptual Content ................................. 725
Introduction .................................................. 727
47. Simple Seeing
Fred Dretske ....................................... 731
48. Excerpts from The Varieties of Reference
Gareth Evans ....................................... 741
49. Non-conceptual Content
John McDowell ...................................... 748
50. Experience Without the Head
Alva Noë ........................................... 760
Part IX. Animal Minds ....................................... 777
Introduction .................................................. 779
51. Rational Animals
Donald Davidson .................................... 781
52. The Problem of Simple Minds: Is There Anything it
is Like to be a Honey Bee?
Michael Tye ........................................ 788
53. Why the Question of Animal Consciousness Might Not
Matter Very Much
Peter Carruthers ................................... 805
Part X. Emotion ............................................ 821
Introduction .................................................. 823
54. Emotions and Choice
Robert C. Solomon .................................. 827
55. Embodied Emotions
Jesse Prinz ........................................ 839
56. Is Emotion a Natural Kind?
Paul E. Griffiths .................................. 850
Author Index .................................................. 863
Subject Index ................................................. 871
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