Philosophy of mind
By: Stephen Burwood, Paul Gilbert, and Kathleen Lennon.
Contributors: Lennon, Kathleen.; Gilbert, Paul, 1942-
Series: Fundamentals of philosophy
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Philosophy of mind
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 The Cartesian legacy; title: The dominant paradigm; title: Cartesian dualism; title: The secret life of the body; title: The Cartesian theatre; title: The domain of reason; title: The causal relevance of the mind; title: Conclusion; title: Further reading; title: 2 Reductionism and the road to functionalism; title: Causation, scientific realism, and physicalism; title: Reductionism and central state materialism; title: Problems with central state materialism; title: Modified ontological physicalism: supervenience; title: Modified explanatory physicalism: the disunity of; title: science picture; title: Supervenient causation; title: Functionalism; title: Further reading; title: 3 Computational models of mind; title: Intentionality; title: Rationality: the calculative account; title: The computational model of mind; title: Objections to the language of thought (1); title: Objections to the language of thought (2); title: Conclusion; title: Further reading; title: 4 The content of thought; title: The internalist picture; title: Externalism; title: Singular thoughts; title: Dual component theories; title: Naturalistic externalism; title: Teleological theories; title: Conclusion; title: Further reading; title: 5 Anti-reductionist alternatives; title: Interpretationalism; title: Real patterns; title: Direct interpretationalism; title: Psychological causalism; title: Modified psychological causalism; title: Third-personalism and perspectivity; title: The world from the point of view of the subject; title: Context and culture; title: Conclusion; title: Further reading; title: 6 The content of experience; title: Consciousness; title: The knowledge argument; title: Absent qualia and inverted spectra; title: Functionalist responses; title: Internal monitoring; title: Intentionalism; title: Form and content; title: The private language argument; title: Further reading; title: 7 Subjects of experience; title: Subjectivity; title: The subjective viewpoint; title: Intersubjectivity; title: Simulation theory; title: Normativity and normality; title: Expression; title: Self-knowledge; title: Conclusion; title: Further reading; title: 8 The embodied subject; title: Mentality; title: Desire; title: Beyond the Cartesian body; title: Metaphysical questions: multiple narratives; title: Further reading; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.