Philosophy of mind : the metaphysics of consciousness / Dale Jacquette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacquette, Dale.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

xiii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2009]

Summary:

A clear and accessible introduction to the philosophy of mind, ideal for use on undergraduate courses. >

Contents:

Introduction: The Ontology of Mind 1

1 What is the mind? 1

2 Ontological alternatives 2

3 Interpretation and method 4

1 Dualisms of Mental and Physical Phenomena 7

1 The mind-body problem 8

2 Substance dualism 10

3 Descartes' first argument 12

4 Descartes' second argument 14

5 Causal interaction problem 15

6 Berkeley's idealist 'dualism' of minds and ideas 20

7 Property dualism 22

8 Kripke's modal analysis of property dualism 24

9 Objections to property dualism 31

9.1 Inconsistency of irreducibility and emergence claims in property dualism 32

9.2 Incoherence of chronologically fundamental and evolutionarily emergent psychological properties 33

9.3 Ontological economy of eliminativism and reductivism 34

9.4 Explanatory disadvantages of property dualism 34

9.5 Causal irrelevance of intentional epiphenomena 37

9.6 Objection from evolutionary science 38

10 Neurophysiology of the phantom limb 39

11 Scientific psychology and the metaphysics of mind 44

2 Elimination and Reduction Strategies for the Concept of Mind: Behaviourism, Materialism, Functionalism 46

1 Ockham's Razor 47

2 Classical behaviourism 49

3 Logical behaviourism: Ryle's exorcism of the ghost in the machine 53

4 Mind-brain identity: eliminative and reductive materialisms 56

5 Armstrong's materialist logical behaviourism 60

6 Stich's theory of brain sentence tokens 63

7 Functionalism and computationalism 65

8 Qualia and content for Nagel's bat and Jackson's colour scientist 69

9 McGinn's naturalistic mysterianism 73

10 Denying the obvious 78

3 Artificial Intelligence: Mechanism, Minds and Machines 81

1 Can machines think? 82

2 Mechanical models of mind 83

3 From La Mettrie to von Neumann 86

4 Turing's test of machine intelligence 88

5 Rule-structured programming 93

6 Parallel distributed processing (connectionism) 99

7 Searle's Chinese Room 103

8 Lucas' Gödel sentence criterion 105

9 What computers can and cannot do 111

10 Understanding and the mechanization of meaning 114

11 Lloyd's simple mechanical minds 116

12 Intrinsic versus extrinsic representation 120

13 Smoke, fog and mirrors 125

14 Creativity problems for minds and machines 130

15 Mechanism and intentionality 132

4 Intentionality and the Nature of Thought 134

1 Intentionality 135

2 Brentano's Intentionality thesis 136

3 Primacy of the intentional, inteliminability and irreducibility 139

4 Fodor's objection to the irreducibility of intentionality 143

5 Chisholm and Sellars on the intentionality of thought and language 145

6 Demystifying intentionality 150

7 Putnam's Twin Earth counterexample 151

8 In defence of folk psychology 155

9 Intentionality of sensation as the basis of thought 157

10 Dennett's intentional stance 160

11 Searle's mind-body antireductionism 162

12 Logical triviality problem 165

13 Implications and critique of Searle's antireductionism 168

14 Alternative concepts of mind-body reduction 175

15 Why do pains hurt? 180

16 Sentience, consciousness, self-consciousness 182

17 Self identity puzzles 186

18 The intended self 190

5 Supervenience and the Emergence of Consciousness 194

1 Qualia and intentionality 195

2 Modes and models of consciousness 197

3 Kim on weak and strong supervenience 200

4 Emergence as super-supervenience 203

5 Ontic and explanatory priority of intentionality 208

6 Chalmers on the supervenience of intentionality on qualia 211

7 Super-supervenience and the metaphysics of emergence 216

8 Collective intentionality 220

9 Searle's irreducible 'We intend' 221

10 Language, meaning and cointentionality 223

11 Epistemic dimensions of collective intentionality 227

12 Social implications of language 229

13 Origin of social institutions 234

14 Derivative qualia as poetry 235

6 The Dignity of Mind 237

1 Ascent of the mind 238

2 Emergence and supervenience 239

3 The privacy of experience 242

4 Wittgenstein's private language argument 247

5 Solipsism and knowledge of other minds 251

6 Agent causation 255

7 Intentionality and intention in action 257

8 Freedom of action, purpose and the will 261

9 Helmholtz's critique of agent causation 264

10 Passions of the soul: sensation, emotion, imagination, memory 266

11 Death 268.

Notes:

Rev. and expanded ed. of: Philosophy of mind / Dale Jacquette. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, c1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [286]-296) and index.

ISBN:

9780826499172

0826499171

9780826499189

082649918X

OCLC:

248538144