Philosophy of Mind and Cognition An

David Braddon-Mitchell and Frank Jackson's popular introduction to philosophy of mind and cognition is now available in a fully revised and updated edition. Ensures that the most recent developments in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science are brought together into a coherent, accessible whole. Revisions respond to feedback from students and teachers and make the volume even more useful for courses. New material includes: a section on Descartes' famous objection to materialism; extended treatment of connectionism; coverage of the view that psychology is autonomous; fuller discussion of recent debates over phenomenal experience; and much more.

David Braddon-Mitchell is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He has published widely in philosophy of mind and metaphysics.

Frank Jackson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He is the author of Conditionals (Blackwell, 1987) and his John Locke Lectures were published as From Metaphysics to Ethics in 1998.

Preface

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Part I: From Dualism to Common-sense Functionalism

1

(64)

1 The Flight from Dualism

3

(34)

The Issue Between Dualism and Materialism

3

(18)

Some of the classic arguments for dualism

4

(6)

Two kinds of dualism

10

(2)

The causal problem for dualism

12

(3)

Some responses for the dualist

15

(4)

Refining the definition of materialism

19

(2)

Supervenience

21

(2)

Supervenience and completeness

21

(2)

Supervenience and possible worlds

23

(1)

Possible Worlds: An Introduction

23

(12)

Explications in terms of possible worlds

24

(4)

Supervenience and possible worlds

28

(1)

Materialism and supervenience

28

(2)

Making true and the varieties of materialism

30

(1)

Some warnings and physical properties revisited

31

(4)

Annotated Reading

35

(2)

2 Behaviourism and Beyond

37

(11)

The Case for Behaviourism

38

(2)

Methodological and Revisionary Behaviourism

40

(1)

Problems for Behaviourism

41

(4)

The Path to Functionalism via a Causal Theory

45

(1)

The Causal Theory of Mind

46

(1)

Annotated Reading

47

(1)

3 Common-sense Functionalism

48

(17)

Multiple Realizability

49

(3)

Common-sense Functionalism Expounded

52

(3)

Interconnections without Circularity

55

(4)

Behaviour Characterized in Terms of Environmental Impact

59

(2)

What Does Common Sense Say about the Mind?

61

(3)

Annotated Reading

64

(1)

Part II: Rivals and Objections

65

(104)

4 Theory of Reference

67

(17)

The Description Theory of Reference

67

(5)

Objections to the description theory

69

(3)

The Causal Theory

72

(7)

Rigid designation

75

(4)

The Necessary A Posteriori

79

(4)

Annotated Reading

83

(1)

5 Empirical Functionalisms

84

(11)

Common-sense Functional Roles as a Reference-fixing Device

84

(3)

Chauvinism and Empirical Functionalism

87

(7)

Annotated Reading

94

(1)

6 The Identity Theory

95

(12)

The Identity Theory and Functionalism

97

(1)

Some Early Objections to the Identity Theory

98

(2)

Token–Token versus Type–Type Identity Theories

100

(4)

Essentialism about Psychological States

104

(2)

Annotated Reading

106

(1)

7 Four Challenges to Functionalism

107

(22)

The China Brain

107

(3)

The Chinese Room

110

(4)

Blockhead

114

(1)

Good chess versus being good at chess

115

(1)

The game of life

116

(3)

Why Blockhead is not a thinker

119

(3)

Common-sense functionalism and Blockhead

122

(1)

The Zombie Objection

123

(5)

Annotated Reading

128

(1)

8 Phenomenal Qualities and Consciousness

129

(25)

The Question of Qualia

130

(12)

The spectrum inversion objection to functionalism

131

(3)

The knowledge argument challenge to physicalism

134

(1)

Replies to the knowledge argument

135

(7)

Consciousness

142

(7)

Representationalism and Perceptual Experience

149

(3)

Annotated Reading

152

(2)

9 Instrumentalism and Interpretationism

154

(15)

Instrumentalism

154

(10)

Stances and intentional systems

155

(4)

Instrumentalism and intentional systems theory

159

(5)

Interpretationism

164

(3)

Annotated Reading

167

(2)

Part III: About Content

169

(94)

10 The Language of Thought

171

(14)

The Language of Thought Hypothesis

173

(4)

Why are we supposed to believe in the language of thought?

175

(2)

The Map Alternative

177

(7)

The way maps represent

179

(2)

Do maps explain the phenomena?

181

(3)

Annotated Reading

184

(1)

11 Content

185

(34)

What is the Problem of Content?

185

(3)

The Map Theory

188

(5)

Belief as a map by which we steer

188

(5)

The Internal Sentence Theory

193

(2)

Problems for the Map-system Theory

195

(8)

Problems and Questions for the Internal Sentence Theory

203

(14)

Informational semantics

204

(6)

Content, evolution and biological function

210

(5)

A general objection to the internal sentence theory of the content of belief

215

(2)

Annotated Reading

217

(2)

12 Connectionism

219

(18)

Connectionism and the Map-system Theory

230

(6)

Annotated Reading

236

(1)

13 Broad and Narrow Content

237

(26)

Narrow Content

238

(8)

Virtual reality and brains in vats

238

(2)

Narrow content is not intrinsic

240

(2)

Egocentric content

242

(3)

The explanatory value of narrow content

245

(1)

Broad Content

246

(8)

The explanatory value of broad content

251

(3)

Deflationism about Broad Content versus Scepticism about Narrow Content

254

(7)

Annotated Reading

261

(2)

Part IV: Explaining Behaviour: Eliminativism and Realism

263

(29)

14 Eliminative Materialism

265

(15)

The Case for Eliminativism

265

(3)

The Functionalist Reply to Eliminativism

268

(7)

Does functionalism make it too easy to save folk psychology?

272

(2)

Empirical functionalism: how to have strong internal constraints without inviting scepticism

274

(1)

Natural Kinds and Scientific Reductions

275

(4)

Annotated Reading

279

(1)

15 Psychological Explanation and Common-sense Functionalism

280

(12)

Three Questions for Common-sense Functionalism

281

(10)

The triviality question

282

(2)

The relationship question: partial and complete explanations

284

(5)

The causal question

289

(2)

Annotated Reading

291

(1)

Glossary

292

(18)

Bibliography

310

(6)

Index

316

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