Philosophy of mind : classical and contemporary readings / [edited by] David J. Chalmers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chalmers, David John, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

xii, 675 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

What is the mind? Is consciousness a process in the brain? How do our minds represent the world? Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings is a grand tour of writings on these and other perplexing questions about the nature of the mind. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, the book includes sixty-three selections that range from the classical contributions of Descartes to the leading edge of contemporary debates. Extensive sections cover foundational issues, the nature of consciousness, and the nature of mental content. Three of the selections are published here for the first time, while many other articles have been revised especially for this volume. Each section opens with an introduction by the editor. Philosophy of Mind is suitable for students at all levels and also for general readers.

Contents:

A. Dualism

1 Meditations on First Philosophy (II and VI) / Rene Descartes 10

2 Passions of the Soul (Excerpt) / Rene Descartes 21

3 On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata, and Its History (Excerpt) / Thomas H. Huxley 24

4 An Unfortunate Dualist / Raymond M. Smullyan 31

B. Behaviorism

5 Descartes' Myth / Gilbert Ryle 32

6 Psychology in Physical Language (Excerpt) / Rudolf Carnap 39

7 Brains and Behavior / Hilary Putnam 45

C. The Identity Theory

8 Is Consciousness a Brain Process? / U. T. Place 55

9 Sensations and Brain Processes / J. J. C. Smart 60

10 The "Mental" and the "Physical" (Excerpt) / Herbert Feigl 68

D. Functionalism

11 The Nature of Mental States / Hilary Putnam 73

12 The Causal Theory of the Mind / D. M. Armstrong 80

13 Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications / David Lewis 88

14 Troubles with Functionalism (Excerpt) / Ned Block 94

15 Pseudonormal Vision: An Actual Case of Qualia Inversion? / Martine Nida-Rumelin 99

E. Other Psychophysical Relations

16 Mechanism and Its Alternatives (Excerpt) / C. D. Broad 106

17 Mental Events / Donald Davidson 116

18 Special Sciences (or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis) / Jerry A. Fodor 126

19 Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction / Jaegwon Kim 135

20 From Supervenience to Superdupervenience: Meeting the Demands of a Material World (Excerpt) / Terence Horgan 150

21 Finding the Mind in the Natural World / Frank Jackson 162

F. Mental Causation

22 The Many Problems of Mental Causation (Excerpt) / Jaegwon Kim 170

23 Mental Causation / Stephen Yablo 179

2 Consciousness 197

24 Concepts of Consciousness / Ned Block 206

25 What Is It Like to Be a Bat? / Thomas Nagel 219

26 Quining Qualia / Daniel C. Dennett 226

27 Consciousness and Its Place in Nature / David J. Chalmers 247

B. The Knowledge Argument

28 Epiphenomenal Qualia / Frank Jackson 273

29 What Experience Teaches / David Lewis 281

30 Phenomenal States (Second Version) / Brian Loar 295

31 Two Conceptions of the Physical / Daniel Stoljar 311

C. Modal Arguments

32 Naming and Necessity (Excerpt) / Saul A. Kripke 329

33 Imaginability, Conceivability, Possibility and the Mind-Body Problem (Excerpt) / Christopher S. Hill 334

34 Rigid Designators and Mind-Brain Identity (Excerpt) / Grover Maxwell 341

D. The Explanatory Gap

35 Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap / Joseph Levine 354

36 The Rediscovery of Light / Paul M. Churchland 362

37 Conceptual Analysis, Dualism, and the Explanatory Gap / Ned Block, Robert Stalnaker 371

38 Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem? / Colin McGinn 394

E. Higher-Order Thought and Representationalism

39 Explaining Consciousness / David M. Rosenthal 406

40 Conscious Experience / Fred Dretske 422

41 Sensation and the Content of Experience: A Distinction / Christopher Peacocke 435

42 Visual Qualia and Visual Content Revisited / Michael Tye 447

43 Introspection and Phenomenal Character / Sydney Shoemaker 457

A. The Nature of Intentionality

44 The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena (Excerpt) / Franz Brentano 479

45 "Intentional Inexistence" (Excerpt) / Roderick M. Chisholm 484

46 A Recipe for Thought / Fred Dretske 491

47 Biosemantics / Ruth Garrett Millikan 500

48 Reasoning and Representing / Robert Brandom 509

49 The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality / Terence Horgan, John Tienson 520

B. Propositional Attitudes

50 Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Excerpt) / Wilfrid Sellars 534

51 Propositional Attitudes / Jerry A. Fodor 542

52 True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works / Daniel C. Dennett 556

53 Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes / Paul M. Churchland 568

C. Internalism and Externalism

54 The Meaning of "Meaning" (Excerpt) / Hilary Putnam 581

55 Individualism and the Mental (Excerpt) / Tyler Burge 597

56 The Components of Content (Revised Version) / David J. Chalmers 608

57 Anti-Individualism and Privileged Access / Michael McKinsey 634

58 What an Anti-Individualist Knows A Priori / Anthony Brueckner 639

59 The Extended Mind / Andy Clark, David J. Chalmers 643

60 Reductionism and Personal Identity / Derek Parfit 655

61 Freedom and Necessity / A. J. Ayer 662

62 Analogy / Bertrand Russell 667

63 Can Computers Think? / John R. Searle 669.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0195145801

019514581X

OCLC:

49936155