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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: The Place of Mind in a Scientific Universe | |
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| Cartesian Dualism | |
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| Human Minds and Animal Machines | |
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| Second Meditation: The Nature of the Human Mind, and How It Is Better Known Than the Body | |
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| Sixth Meditation: The Existence of Material Things, and the Real Distinction Between Mind and Body | |
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| To More, 5 February 1649 | |
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| The Ghost in the Machine | |
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| Gilbert Ryle, Descartes' Myth | |
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| Norman Malcolm, Knowledge of Other Minds | |
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| The Human Brain | |
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| Brian Cooney, Brain Events | |
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| Materialism | |
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| The Identity Thesis | |
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| U. T. Place, Is Consciousness a Brain Process? | |
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| J. J. C. Smart, Sensations and Brain Processes | |
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| Saul Kripke, The Identity Relation: Selections from Naming and Necessity | |
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| Eliminative Materialism | |
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| Richard Rorty, Mind-Body Identity, Privacy, and Categories | |
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| Paul M. Churchland, Eliminative Materialism | |
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| Functionalism | |
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| David M. Armstrong, The Nature of Mind | |
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| Jerry A. Fodor, Materialism | |
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| Supervenience | |
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| John Haugeland, Ontological Supervenience | |
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| Jaegwom Kim, The Mind-Body Problem: Taking Stock after Forty Years | |
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| Minds and Computers | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Harper's Magazine Forum, Our Machines, Ourselves | |
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| Richard B. White, Some Basic Concepts of Computability Theory | |
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| Hilary Putnam, The Nature of Mental States | |
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| Jerry A. Fodor, Methodological Solipsism Considered as a Research Strategy in Cognitive Psychology | |
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| John R. Searle, Do Minds Compute? | |
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| Minds, Brains, and Programs | |
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| Is the Brain a Digital Computer? | |
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| Intentionality | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Roderick M. Chisholm, Brentano on Descriptive Psychology and the Intentional | |
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| Daniel C. Dennett, Intentional Systems | |
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| Fred Dretske, If You Can't Make One, You Don't Know How It Works | |
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| Consciousness and Qualia | |
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| Thomas Nagel, What Is It Like to Be a Bat? | |
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| Keith Campbell, A Critique of Central-State Materialism | |
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| Frank Jackson, Epiphenomenal Qualia | |
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| Patricia Smith Churchland and Paul M. Churchland, Functionalism, Qualia, and Intentionality | |
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| Colin McGinn, Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem? | |
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| David Chalmers, Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness | |
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| Brian Loar, Phenomenal States | |
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| Selves | |
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| John Locke, Of Identity and Diversity | |
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| David Hume, Of Personal Identity | |
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| Derek Parfit, Selections from Reasons and Persons | |
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| Thomas Nagel, Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness | |
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| Daniel C. Dennett, Why Everyone Is a Novelist | |
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| Sydney Shoemaker, Self and Substance | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Works Cited | |