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Philosophy of Mind Classical and Contemporary Readings

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ISBN-10: 019514581X

ISBN-13: 9780195145816

Edition: 2002

Authors: David J. Chalmers

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Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings is an ideal text for introductory, advanced undergraduate, and graduate courses in the philosophy of mind and related areas. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, this volume ranges from the classical contributions of Descartes to the leading edge of the discipline. Three of the selections are being published here for the first time, while many other articles have been revised especially for this volume.Extensive sections cover foundational issues, the nature of consciousness, the nature of mental content, and miscellaneous issues. Each section opens with an in-depth introduction by the editor.
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List price: $94.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/25/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 9.80" wide x 7.01" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English

Preface
Foundations
Dualism
Meditations on First Philosophy (II and VI)
Passions of the Soul (Excerpt)
On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata, and Its History (Excerpt)
An Unfortunate Dualist
Behaviorism
Descartes' Myth
Psychology in Physical Language (Excerpt)
Brains and Behavior
The Identity Theory
Is Consciousness a Brain Process?
Sensations and Brain Processes
The "Mental" and the "Physical" (Excerpt)
Functionalism
The Nature of Mental States
The Causal Theory of the Mind
Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications
Troubles with Functionalism (Excerpt)
Pseudonormal Vision: An Actual Case of Qualia Inversion?
Other Psychophysical Relations
Mechanism and Its Alternatives (Excerpt)
Mental Events
Special Sciences (or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis)
Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction
From Supervenience to Superdupervenience: Meeting the Demands of a Material World (Excerpt)
Finding the Mind in the Natural World
Mental Causation
The Many Problems of Mental Causation (Excerpt)
Mental Causation
Consciousness
General
Concepts of Consciousness
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Quining Qualia
Consciousness and Its Place in Nature
The Knowledge Argument
Epiphenomenal Qualia
What Experience Teaches
Phenomenal States (Second Version)
Two Conceptions of the Physical
Modal Arguments
Naming and Necessity (Excerpt)
Imaginability, Conceivability, Possibility and the Mind-Body Problem (Excerpt)
Rigid Designators and Mind-Brain Identity (Excerpt)
The Explanatory Gap
Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap
The Rediscovery of Light
Conceptual Analysis, Dualism, and the Explanatory Gap
Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?
Higher-Order Thought and Representationalism
Explaining Consciousness
Conscious Experience
Sensation and the Content of Experience: A Distinction
Visual Qualia and Visual Content Revisited
Introspection and Phenomenal Character
Content
The Nature of Intentionality
The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena (Excerpt)
"Intentional Inexistence" (Excerpt)
A Recipe for Thought
Biosemantics
Reasoning and Representing
The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality
Propositional Attitudes
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Excerpt)
Propositional Attitudes
True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works
Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes
Internalism and Externalism
The Meaning of "Meaning" (Excerpt)
Individualism and the Mental (Excerpt)
The Components of Content (Revised Version)
Anti-Individualism and Privileged Access
What an Anti-Individualist Knows A Priori
The Extended Mind
Miscellaneous
Reductionism and Personal Identity
Freedom and Necessity
Analogy
Can Computers Think?