Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings

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New York: Oxford University Press USA (2002)
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What is the mind? Is consciousness a process in the brain? How do our minds represent the world? Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings is a grand tour of writings on these and other perplexing questions about the nature of the mind. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, the book includes sixty-three selections that range from the classical contributions of Descartes to the leading edge of contemporary debates. Extensive sections cover foundational issues, the nature of consciousness, and the nature of mental content. Three of the selections are published here for the first time, while many other articles have been revised especially for this volume. Each section opens with an introduction by the editor. Philosophy of Mind is suitable for students at all levels and also for general readers.

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BD418.3.C435 2002

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A Recipe for Thought.Fred Dretske
An Unfortunate Dualist.Raymond M. Smullyan
Can Computers Think?John R. Searle
Descartes' Myth.Gilbert Ryle
Mechanism and Its Alternatives (Excerpt).C. D. Broad
Passions of the Soul (Excerpt).René Descartes
The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena (Excerpt).Franz Brentano
The Many Problems of Mental Causation (Excerpt).Jaegwon Kim
The components of content.David Chalmers
Visual qualia and visual content revisited.Michael Tye
Conceptual analysis, dualism, and the explanatory gap.  (pages 1-46)Ned Block & Robert Stalnaker
A. Dual.  (pages 10)Rene Descartes
Meditations on first Philosophy. Second Meditation: The nature of the Human Mind, and How It is Better Known than the Body, and Sixth Meditation: The Existence of Material Things, and the Real Distinction between Mind and Body. Reproduced from Descartes (1985).  (pages 10--21)René Descartes
B. Behaviorism.  (pages 32)Gilbert Ryle
Brains and Behaviour1.  (pages 45)Hilary Putnam
C. The Identity Theory.  (pages 47--55)U. I. Place
D. Functionalism.  (pages 73)Hilary Putnam
12 The Causal Theory of the Mind.  (pages 80)D. M. Armstrong
E. Other Psychophysical Relations.  (pages 106)C. D. Broad
Explaining Consciousness.  (pages 109-131)David M. Rosenthal
18 Special Sciences (or: The Disunity of Science as).  (pages 126)Jerry A. Fodor
21 Finding the Mind in the Natural World.  (pages 162)Frank Jackson
Concepts of Consciousness.  (pages 206-218)Ned Block
Some concepts of consciousness.  (pages 206-219)Ned Block
What Is It Like to Be 25.  (pages 219)Thomas Nagel
26 Quining Qualia.  (pages 226)Daniel C. Dennett
Mental causation.  (pages 245-280)Stephen Yablo
B. The Knowledge Argument.  (pages 273)Epiphenomenal Qualia
36 The Rediscovery of Light.  (pages 362)Paul M. Churchland
Sensation and the Content of Experience.  (pages 435)A. Distinction
A. The Nature of Intentionality.  (pages 479)Physical Phenomena
The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality.  (pages 520--533)Terence Horgan & John Tienson
The phenomenology of intentionality and the intentionality of phenomenology.  (pages 520--533)Terry Horgan & John Tienson
Reductionism and personal identity.  (pages 655-51)Derek Parfit

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