Mind and Cognition An Anthology

First published in 1990, Mind and Cognition: An Anthology is now firmly established as a popular teaching apparatus for upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in the philosophy of mind. This collection of classic and contemporary articles in philosophy of mind and cognition provides the reader with an overview of the complex, sophisticated and sometimes conflicting developments in theories of mind that have taken place over the last 40 years, making available to students, teachers and researchers the very best and most influential contributions to the discipline. For this new edition, 20 new readings are included and substantial revisions restore the balance (from the first edition) between the traditional areas of philosophy of mind and cutting edge areas of philosophy of cognitive science, such as situated cognition, animal minds and emotion. The emphasis in selection throughout has been on quality and teachability, making this volume a vital resource.

William G. Lycan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published widely in the field of philosophy of mind and language. His publications include Consciousness (1987), Judgement and Justification (1988), and Consciousness and Experience (1996).

Jesse J. Prinz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His books include Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perceptual Basis (2002), Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion (2004), and The Emotional Construction of Morals (2007).

Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgements
Ontology: The Identity Theory and Functionalism
Introduction
Behaviorism
Excerpt from About Behaviorism
The Identity Theory and Machine Functionalism
Is Consciousness a Brain Process?
Causal and Functionalist Views
The Causal Theory of Mind
The Nature of Mental States
Troubles with Functionalism (excerpt)
Anomalous Monism
Mental Events
Homuncular and Teleological Functionalism
The Continuity of Levels of Nature
Intentionality
Introduction
Psychosemantics
Information and Representation
Biosemantics
A Guide to Naturalizing Semantics (excerpt)
Other Approaches to Intentionality
Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality
The Computational Theory of Mind and Artificial Intelligence
Introduction
The Language of Thought and Computationalism
Why There Has to Be and How There Could Be a Private Language
Which Language Do We Think With?
Artificial Intelligence
Semantic Engines: An Introduction to Mind Design
Can Computers Think?
Eliminativism, Neurophilosophy, and Anti-Representationalism
Introduction
Eliminativism
Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes
Connectionism
Neural Representation and Neural Computation
Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture (excerpt)
Dynamical Systems Theory and Robotics
What Might Cognition Be, If Not Computation?
Intelligence Without Representation
Instrumentalism and Folk Psychology
Introduction
Instrumentalism
True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works
Dennett on Intentional Systems
Real Patterns
Simulationism and the Theory Theory
Folk Psychology as Simulation
Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory? (excerpt)
Mental Causation, Externalism, and Self-Knowledge
Introduction
For and Against Folk Psychology
Autonomous Psychology and the Belief--Desire Thesis
Folk Psychology is Here to Stay
Supervenient Causation
Mental Causation
Type Epiphenomenalism, Type Dualism, and the Causal Priority of the Physical
For and Against Externalism
Individualism and Supervenience
The Argument from Causal Powers
Reference, Causal Powers, Externalist Intuitions, and Unicorns
Self-Knowledge
Knowing OneÆs Own Mind
Externalism and Inference
Radical Externalism
The Extended Mind
Consciousness, Qualia, and Subjectivity
Introduction
What Is Consciousness?
How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness
What Should We Expect from a Theory of Consciousness?
Consciousness and its Place in Nature (excerpt)
Conscious Awareness
A Theory of Consciousness (excerpt)
The Superiority of HOP to HOT
Perception without Awareness
What ItÆs Like
Epiphenomenal Qualia
Understanding the Phenomenal Mind: Are We All Just Armadillos?
Qualia
The Intrinsic Quality of Experience
Sensation and the Content of Experience
Blurry Images, Double Vision, and Other Oddities
Perceptual Content
Introduction
Simple Seeing
Excerpts from The Varieties of Reference
Non-conceptual Content
Experience Without the Head
Animal Minds
Introduction
Rational Animals
The Problem of Simple Minds: Is There Anything it is Like to be a Honey Bee?
Why the Question of Animal Consciousness Might Not Matter Very Much
Emotion
Introduction
Emotions and Choice
Embodied Emotions
Is Emotion a Natural Kind?
Index
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