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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chalmers, David John, 1966- editor.

Beth & Matthew Mezvinsky Collection Fund for Modern Philosophy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

xii, 801 pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Contents:

A Dualism

1 Meditations on First Philosophy (II and VI) p. 9 / René Descartes

2 The Passions of the Soul (Excerpt) p. 20 / René Descartes

3 Correspondence Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes p. 23

4 The Akan Concept of a Person p. 30 / Kwame Gyekye

5 The Floating Man (Excerpt) p. 36 / Avicenna

6 On the Hypothesis that Animals Are Automata, and Its History (Excerpt) p. 38 / Thomas H. Huxley

7 An Unfortunate Dualist p. 45 / Raymond M. Smullyan

B Behaviorism

8 Descartes' Myth p. 46 / Gilbert Ryle

9 The Logical Analysis of Psychology p. 53 / Carl G. Hempel

10 Brains and Behaviour p. 61 / Hilary Putnam

C The Identity Theory and Functionalism

11 Sensations and Brain Processes p. 71 / J. J. C. Smart

12 The Nature of Mental States p. 79 / Hilary Putnam

13 The Causal Theory of the Mind p. 86 / David M. Armstrong

14 Mad Pain and Martian Pain p. 93 / David Lewis

15 Troubles with Functionalism (Excerpt) p. 99 / Ned Block

16 Pseudonormal Vision: An Actual Case of Qualia Inversion? p. 103 / Martine Nida-Rümelin

D Other Psychophysical Relations

17 Mental Events p. 110 / Donald Davidson

18 Special Sciences (or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis) p. 120 / Jerry A. Fodor

19 Finding the Mind in the Natural World p. 129 / Frank Jackson

20 The Many Problems of Mental Causation (Excerpt) p. 137 / Jaegwon Kim

21 Emergentisms, Ancient and Modern (Excerpt) p. 146 / Jonardon Ganeri

22 Post-Physicalism p. 158 / Barbara Montero

2 Consciousness p. 173

23 Concepts of Consciousness p. 179 / Ned Block

24 What Is It Like to Be a Bat? p. 192 / Thomas Nagel

25 Quining Qualia p. 199 / Daniel C. Dennett

26 Explaining Consciousness p. 219 / David M. Rosenthal

27 Visual Qualia and Visual Content Revisited p. 235 / Michael Tye

28 Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness p. 245 / Keith Frankish

B Consciousness and Materialism

29 Consciousness and Its Place in Nature p. 260 / David J. Chalmers

30 Epiphenomenal Qualia p. 283 / Frank Jackson

31 What Experience Teaches p. 290 / David Lewis

32 Naming and Necessity (Excerpt) p. 304 / Saul A. Kripke

33 Acquaintance and the Mind-Body Problem p. 310 / Katalin Balog

34 Is Matter Conscious? p. 325 / Hedda Hassel Mørch

A The Nature of Intentionality

35 The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena (Excerpt) p. 338 / Franz Brentano

36 'Intentional Inexistence' p. 343 / Roderick M. Chisholm

37 A Recipe for Thought p. 350 / Fred Dretske

38 Of Sensory Systems and the 'Aboutness' of Mental States p. 359 / Kathleen Akins

39 Biosemantics p. 378 / Ruth Garrett Millikan

40 Inferentialism and Some of Its Challenges p. 388 / Robert Brandom

41 The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality p. 401 / Terence Horgan and John Tienson

B Propositional Attitudes

42 Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Excerpt) p. 415 / Wilfrid Sellars

43 Propositional Attitudes p. 423 / Jerry A. Fodor

44 True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works p. 437 / Daniel C. Dennett

45 Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes p. 449 / Paul M. Churchland

46 Alief and Belief p. 461 / Tamar Gendler

C Internalism, Externalism, and Embodiment

47 The Meaning of 'Meaning' (Excerpt) p. 479 / Hilary Putnam

48 Individualism and the Mental (Excerpt) p. 494 / Tyler Burge

49 The Extended Mind p. 505 / Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers

50 Overextending the Mind p. 513 / Brie Gertler

51 The Embodied Mind p. 522 / Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi

4 Perception p. 539

52 The Argument from Illusion (Excerpt) p. 542 / A. J. Ayer

53 Sense and Sensibilia (Excerpt) p. 545 / J. L. Austin

54 The 'Sensation' as a Unit of Experience p. 555 / Maurice Merleau-Ponty

55 The Intentionality of Sensation: A Grammatical Feature p. 561 / G. E. M. Anscombe

56 The Limits of Self-Awareness (Excerpt) p. 572 / M. G. F. Martin

57 Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? p. 581 / Alva Noë

58 Which Properties are Represented in Perception? p. 589 / Susanna Siegel

5 Self-Knowledge and Other Minds p. 605

59 How Do You Know You Are Not a Zombie? p. 607 / Fred Dretske

60 Introspection (Excerpt) p. 615 / Alex Byrne

61 The Unreliability of Naive Introspection p. 626 / Eric Schwitzgebel

62 What You Can't Expect When You're Expecting p. 641 / L. A. Paul

63 Analogy p. 655 / Bertrand Russell

64 Intuitions about Consciousness: Experimental Studies p. 657 / Joshua Knobe and Jesse Prinz

65 On Being an Octopus p. 668 / Peter Godfrey-Smith

6 The Self p. 673

66 The Sense of the Self p. 675 / Galen Strawson

67 Non-Self: Empty Persons (Excerpt) p. 681 / Mark Siderits

68 I am John's Brain p. 690 / Andy Clark

69 The Brain and Its Self p. 694 / Patricia Smith Churchland

70 Reductionism and Personal Identity p. 699 / Derek Parfit

71 Learning to Be Me p. 706 / Greg Egan

72 Feminism in Philosophy of Mind: The Question of Personal Identity p. 711 / Susan James

73 Talking Identity p. 722 / Kwame Anthony Appiah

7 Artificial Intelligence p. 737

74 They're Made Out of Meat p. 739 / Terry Bisson

75 Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Excerpt) p. 740 / A. M. Turing

76 Minds, Brains, and Programs p. 755 / John R. Searle

77 The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis (Excerpt) p. 766 / David J. Chalmers

78 The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence p. 780 / Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky

79 How Philosophy of Mind Can Shape the Future p. 791 / Susan Schneider and Pete Mandik.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Beth & Matthew Mezvinsky Collection Fund for Modern Philosophy.

ISBN:

9780190640859

0190640855

OCLC:

1242844168

Publisher Number:

99988585520