The philosophy of mind : classical problems/contemporary issues / edited by Brian Beakley and Peter Ludlow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beakley, Brian.

Ludlow, Peter, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

xviii, 1055 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]

Summary:

The Philosophy of Mind remains the only sourcebook of primary readings offering in-depth coverage of both historical works and contemporary controversies in philosophy of mind. This second edition provides an expanded treatment of classical as well as current topics, with many additional readings and a new section on mental content. The writers included range from Aristotle, Descartes, and William James to such leading contemporary thinkers as Noam Chomsky, Paul and Patricia Churchland, and Jaegwon Kim. The eighty-three selections provide a thorough survey of five areas of enduring controversy: the mind-body problem, mental causation, mental content, innatism and modularity, and associationism and connectionism. Each section includes an introductory overview of the topic by the editors as well as suggestions for further reading.

The selections added for the second edition serve both to enhance historical coverage and to update contemporary issues, especially in areas of current empirical research such as connectionism and innatism. Changes to historical coverage include a wider array of readings on classic positions as well as neglected precursors to views often considered recent innovations. The section on the mind-body problem in particular has been greatly expanded, including numerous selections on consciousness and qualia. The book is ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy and the history of psychology and will be useful both as a reference for researchers and as a self-contained survey for the general reader.

Contents:

I The Mind-Body Problem 1

A Classic Positions 19

1 From Metaphysics, Book 7, and On the Soul, Book 2 / Aristotle 21

2 From Meditations on First Philosophy II and VI and Replies to Objections II / Rene Descartes 25

3 From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / John Locke 27

4 From The Principles of Human Knowledge / George Berkeley 31

5 From The Monadology / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 35

6 From Man a Machine / Julien Offray DeLaMettrie 41

7 From Positivism / Auguste Comte 47

8 From A System of Logic / John Stuart Mill 57

9 From "Does 'Consciousness' Exist?" / William James 61

10 From "The Province of Functional Psychology" / James Rowland Angell 71

11 From The Concept of Mind / Gilbert Ryle 77

B Materialism(s): Function, Reduction, and Elimination 87

12 Is Consciousness a Brain Process? / U. T. Place 89

13 The Nature of Mental States / Hilary Putnam 97

14 Troubles with Functionalism (revised) / Ned Block 107

15 Minds, Brains, and Programs / John R. Searle 133

16 Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes / Paul Churchland 151

17 From Neurophilosophy / Patricia Smith Churchland 169

18 Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction / Jaegwon Kim 179

19 From Language and Problems of Knowledge / Noam Chomsky 201

20 From The Empirical Stance / Bas van Fraassen 205

C Mind and Subjective Experience 217

21 From Mind and the World Order / C. I. Lewis 219

22 From "The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'" / Herbert Feigl 229

23 Sensations and Brain Processes / J. J. C. Smart 243

24 What Is It Like to Be a Bat? / Thomas Nagel 255

25 Functionalism and Qualia / Sydney Shoemaker 267

26 From "Identity and Necessity" / Saul Kripke 285

27 Form, Function, and Feel / William Lycan 291

28 Epiphenomenal Qualia / Frank Jackson 311

29 Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem? / Colin McGinn 321

30 Physicalism and the Cognitive Role of Acquaintance / Laurence Nemirow 337

II Mental Causation 347

31 From The Passions of the Soul / Rene Descartes 355

32 From The Search after Truth / Nicolas Malebranche 361

33 A New System of the Nature and the Communication of Substances / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 365

34 From Critique of Pure Reason / Immanuel Kant 369

35 From "On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata" / Thomas Henry Huxley 381

36 Mental Events / Donald Davidson 385

37 Mind Matters / Ernest LePore, Barry Loewer 399

38 Making Mind Matter More / Jerry A. Fodor 409

39 The Myth of Nonreductive Materialism / Jaegwon Kim 427

40 Causation in the Philosophy of Mind / Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit 443

41 From "Physicalism from a Probabilistic Point of View" / Elliott Sober 461

III Mental Content 469

42 From On the Soul, Book 3 / Aristotle 483

43 From Meditations on First Philosophy and Replies to Objections I-IV / Rene Descartes 487

44 From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / John Locke 489

45 From A Treatise of Human Nature / David Hume 499

46 From Discourse on Metaphysics and Correspondence with Arnauld / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 505

47 From "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" / Charles S. Peirce 509

48 From "The Theory of Objects" / Alexius Meinong 515

49 From The Problems of Philosophy / Bertrand Russell 523

50 From Mind and the World Order / C. I. Lewis 531

51 From "The Meaning of 'Meaning'" / Hilary Putnam 539

52 From "Individualism and the Mental" / Tyler Burge 557

53 Methodological Solipsism Considered as a Research Strategy in Cognitive Psychology / Jerry A. Fodor 575

54 Misrepresentation / Fred Dretske 597

55 From "(Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics" / Gilbert Harman 611

56 Social Content and Psychological Content / Brian Loar 623

57 Wide Computationalism / Robert A. Wilson 635

58 From A Slim Book on Narrow Content / Gabriel Segal 655

IV Innateness and Modularity 681

59 From The Meno / Plato 691

60 From Posterior Analytics, Book II, Chapter 19 / Aristotle 699

61 From Replies to Objections V and "Notes Directed against a Certain Program" / Rene Descartes 701

62 From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / John Locke 705

63 From New Essays on Human Understanding / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 717

64 From Phrenology / J. G. Spurzheim 721

65 From The Language of Thought / Jerry A. Fodor 733

66 The Psychogenesis of Knowledge and Its Epistemological Significance / Jean Piaget 741

67 On Cognitive Structures and Their Development: A Reply to Piaget / Noam Chomsky 751

68 What Is Innate and Why: Comments on the Debate / Hilary Putnam 757

69 From Rules and Representations / Noam Chomsky 771

70 From Modularity of Mind / Jerry A. Fodor 781

71 Against Modularity / William Marslen-Wilson, Lorraine Komisarjevsky Tyler 797

72 The Modularity of Thought and the Epidemiology of Representations / Dan Sperber 821

73 Dissociation and Modularity: Reflections on Language and Mind / Neil Smith 847

V Associationism and Connectionism 871

74 From Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes 879

75 From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / John Locke 883

76 From A System of Logic / John Stuart Mill 887

77 From The Principles of Psychology / William James 891

78 The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing / James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart, Geoffrey E. Hinton 899

79 Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis / Jerry A. Fodor, Zenon W. Pylyshyn 921

80 The Constituent Structure of Connectionist Mental States: A Reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn / Paul Smolensky 961

81 Connectionism and the Problem of Systematicity: Why Smolensky's Solution Doesn't Work / Jerry A. Fodor, Brian P. McLaughlin 983

82 What Is the "D" in "PDP"? A Survey of the Concept of Distribution / Tim van Gelder 1001

83 Connectionism, Eliminativism, and the Future of Folk Psychology / William Ramsey, Stephen P. Stich, Joseph Garon 1027.

Notes:

"A Bradford book".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262025930

0262524511

OCLC:

59223958

Publisher Number:

9780262025935

9780262524513