The Nature of Mind

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ISBN: 9780195046717 | 0195046714
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Copyright: 3/21/1991

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In this comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of mind, David Rosenthal has collected the most important and influential recent writings about the nature of mental functioning and the relationship of mind to the rest of reality.

General Introduction

(15)

I. Problems About Mind

Introduction

(6)

Mind as Consciousness

Selections

(17)

Rene Descartes

from Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditations II and VI, and Fourth Replies

(9)

from Principles of Philosophy I: 9, 11, 32--35, 66--71

(3)

from Letter to Elizabeth (6-28-43)

(1)

from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences V

(1)

from Letter to the Marquess of Newcastle (11-23-46) and Letter to More (2-5-49)

(3)

from Essay Concerning Human Understanding II.i.2-5; II.i.19; II.xxvii.9; IV.vii.4; II.viii.7--15, 23--26; IV.iii.6,x.9--10

(7)

John Locke

from Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Essays I and II

(6)

Thomas Reid

Mind and Nature

``Descartes' Myth''

(7)

Gilbert Ryle

``Self, Mind and Body''

(5)

P. F. Strawson

``Consciousness and Life''

(8)

Gareth B. Matthews

``The First Person''

(18)

G.E.M. Anscombe

II. Self and Other

Introduction

(6)

Knowing Other Minds

``Analogy''

(3)

Bertrand Russell

``Knowledge of Other Minds''

(6)

Norman Malcolm

``The Analogy of Feeling''

(6)

Stuart Hampshire

``Persons''

104

(12)

P. F. Strawson

Privileged Access

from ``How Is Self-Knowledge Possible?''

116

(10)

Sydney Shoemaker

``Is Introspective Knowledge Incorrigible?''

126

(7)

D. M. Armstrong

from ``Mind-Body Identity, Privacy, and Categories''

133

(4)

Richard Rorty

The Theory Approach

``Operationalism and Ordinary Language: A Critique of Wittgenstein''

137

(14)

C. S. Chihara

J. A. Fodor

``Brains and Behaviour''

151

(18)

Hilary Putnam

III. Mind and Body

Introduction

161

(8)

The Topic-Neutral Approach

``Sensations and Brain Processes''

169

(8)

J.J.C. Smart

``Mental Events and the Brain''

177

(4)

Jerome Shaffer

``The Causal Theory of Mind''

181

(8)

D. M. Armstrong

from ``Central State Materialism''

189

(8)

Keith Campbell

Functionalist Approaches

``The Nature of Mental States''

197

(7)

Hilary Putnam

``Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications''

204

(7)

David Lewis

``Troubles with Functionalism''

211

(18)

Ned Block

``Mad Pain and Martian Pain''

229

(7)

David Lewis

Postscript: ``Knowing What It's Like''

234

(2)

The Mental--Physical Contrast

from Naming and Necessity

236

(11)

Saul A. Kripke

``Mental Events''

247

(10)

Donald Davidson

``Epiphenomenal and Supervenient Causation''

257

(9)

Jaegwon Kim

Eliminative Materialism

``Mental Events and the Brain''

266

(2)

Paul Feyerabend

from ``Persons Without Minds''

268

(19)

Richard Rorty

``States of Mind''

287

(10)

W. V. Quine

IV. The Nature of Mind

Introduction

289

(8)

Thinking

``Intentional Inexistence''

297

(7)

Roderick M. Chisholm

from ``The Double Standard''

304

(2)

W. V. Quine

``Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes''

306

(6)

W. V. Quine

from The First Person

312

(13)

Roderick M. Chisholm

``Propositional Attitudes''

325

(14)

J. A. Fodor

``True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works''

339

(15)

Daniel C. Dennett

Postscript: ``Reflections: Real Patterns, Deeper Facts, and Empty Questions''

350

(4)

``The Intentionality of Cognitive States''

354

(9)

Fred I. Dretske

``Thought and Talk''

363

(9)

Donald Davidson

from ``The Structure of Knowledge,'' Lecture II: Minds

372

(8)

Wilfrid Sellars

Sensing

from ``The Status of Appearances''

380

(5)

Roderick M. Chisholm

``The Existence of Mental Objects''

385

(7)

Frank Jackson

``What Mary Didn't Know''

392

(3)

Frank Jackson

``Functionalism and Qualia''

395

(13)

Sydney Shoemaker

``Colour Concepts and Colour Experiences''

408

(9)

Christopher Peacocke

from ``Phenomenalism''

417

(5)

Wilfrid Sellars

and from ``Being and Being Known''

419

(3)

Consciousness, Self, and Personhood

``What Is It Like to Be a Bat?''

422

(7)

Thomas Nagel

from ``Self-Knowledge''

429

(3)

Gilbert Ryle

``Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness''

432

(9)

Thomas Nagel

``Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person''

441

(9)

Harry G. Frankfurt

``Emotions and Knowledge''

450

(4)

Robert M. Gordon

``Thoughtless Brutes''

454

(8)

Norman Malcolm

``Two Concepts of Consciousness''

462

(23)

David M. Rosenthal

V. Psychological Explanation

Introduction

479

(6)

The Computational Approach

``Methodological Solipsism Considered as a Research Strategy in Cognitive Psychology''

485

(17)

J. A. Fodor

``Paying the Price for Methodological Solipsism''

499

(1)

Stephen P. Stich

from ``Author's Response''

500

(2)

Fodor

``Brain Writing and Mind Reading''

502

(7)

Daniel C. Dennett

Postscript

506

(3)

``Minds, Brains, and Programs''

509

(18)

John R. Searle

``Searle on What Only Brains Can Do''

520

(1)

J. A. Fodor

from ``Author's Response''

521

(3)

Searle

``After-thoughts: Yin and Yang in the Chinese Room''

524

(1)

Fodor

``Yin and Yang Strike Out''

525

(2)

Searle

``Computational Psychology and Interpretation Theory''

527

(9)

Hilary Putnam

Individualism

``Individualism and the Mental''

536

(32)

Tyler Burge

``Social Content and Psychological Content''

568

(8)

Brian Loar

``On What's in the Head''

576

(14)

Robert Stalnaker

Scientific Versus Folk Psychology

``Autonomous Psychology and the Belief--Desire Thesis''

590

(11)

Stephen P. Stich

``Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes''

601

(12)

Paul M. Churchland

``Three Kinds of Intentional Psychology''

613

(21)

Daniel C. Dennett

Postscript: ``Reflections: Instrumentalism Reconsidered''

626

(8)

Bibliography

634

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