Philosophy of mind and action theory, 1989
By: edited by James E. Tomberlin.
Contributors: Tomberlin, James E., 1942-
Series: Philosophical perspectives -- 3.
Publisher: Ridgeview Pub. Co.
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Atascadero, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
Subjects: Act (Philosophy); Intentionality (Philosophy); Philosophy of mind.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: Reasons and causes / Fred Dretske; Reasons explanation of action: an incompatibilist account / Carl Ginet; Mental quasation / Terence Horgan; Mechanism, purpose, and explanatory exclusion / Jaegwon Kim; Type epiphenomenalism, type dualism, and the causal priority of the physical / Brian P. McLaughlin; Functional explanations and reasons as causes / Geoffrey Sayre-McCord; On a causal theory of content / Lynne Rudder Baker; Neo-Fregean thought / Steven E. Boër; Folk psychology and the explanation of human behavior / Paul M. Churchland; Illogical belief / Nathan Salmon; On what's in the head / Robert Stalnaker; Turning the tables on Frege or how is it that "Hesperus is Hesperus" is trivial? / Howard Wettstein; The reverse Frege puzzle / Takashi Yagisawa; Fission and the facts / Mark Johnston; When is the will free? / Peter van Inwagen; Proximate causation of action / Myles Brand; Intention and personal policies / Michael E. Bratman; Actions by collectives / Raimo Tuomela; Linguistics: what's wrong with "The right view" / Michael Devitt and Kim Sterelny; Biosemantics and the normative properties of thought / Graeme Forbes; Semantic innocence and psychological understanding / Jennifer Hornsby; Semantics and semantic competence / Scott Soames.