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Mind and Cognition An Anthology

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ISBN-10: 1405157852

ISBN-13: 9781405157858

Edition: 3rd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: William G. Lycan, Jesse J. Prinz

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First published in 1990, "Mind and Cognition: An Anthology" is now firmly established as a popular teaching apparatus for upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in the philosophy of mind.
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Book details

List price: $69.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 894
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 1.84" tall
Weight: 3.586
Language: English

Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
Ontology: The Identity Theory and Functionalism
Introduction
Behaviorism
Excerpt from About Behaviorism
The Identity Theory and Machine Functionalism
Is Consciousness a Brain Process?
The Causal Theory of the Mind
The Nature of Mental States
Troubles with Functionalism (excerpt)
Anomalous Monism
Mental Events
Homuncular and Teleological Functionalism
The Continuity of Levels of Nature
Intentionality
Introduction
Psychosemantics
Information and Representation
Biosemantics
A Guide to Naturalizing Semantics (excerpt)
Other Approaches to Intentionality
Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality
The Computational Theory of Mind and Artificial Intelligence
Introduction
The Language of Thought and Computationalism
Why There Has to Be and How There Could Be a Private Language
Which Language Do We Think With?
Artificial Intelligence
Semantic Engines: An Introduction to Mind Design
Can Computers Think?
Eliminativism, Neurophilosophy, and Anti-Representationalism
Introduction
Eliminativism
Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes
Connectionism
Neural Representation and Neural Computation
Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture (excerpt)
Dynamical Systems Theory and Robotics
What Might Cognition Be, If Not Computation?
Intelligence Without Representation
Instrumentalism and Folk Psychology
Introduction
Instrumentalism
True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works
Dennett on Intentional Systems
Real Patterns
Simulationism and the Theory Theory
Folk Psychology as Simulation
Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory? (excerpt)
Mental Causation, Externalism, and Self-Knowledge
Introduction
For and Against Folk Psychology
Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis
Folk Psychology is Here to Stay
Supervenient Causation
Mental Causation
Type Epiphenomenalism, Type Dualism, and the Causal Priority of the Physical
For and Against Externalism
Individualism and Supervenience
The Argument from Causal Powers
Reference, Causal Powers, Externalist Intuitions and Unicorns
Self-Knowledge
Knowing One's Own Mind
Externalism and Inference
Radical Externalism
The Extended Mind
Consciousness, Qualia, and Subjectivity
Introduction
What Is Consciousness?
How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness
What Should We Expect from a Theory of Consciousness?
Consciousness and its Place in Nature (excerpt)
Conscious Awareness
A Theory of Consciousness (excerpt)
The Superiority of HOP to HOT
Perception without Awareness
What It's Like
Epiphenomenal Qualia
Understanding the Phenomenal Mind: Are We All Just Armadillos?
Qualia
The Intrinsic Quality of Experience
Sensation and the Content of Experience
Blurry Images, Double Vision, and Other Oddities: New Problems for Representationalism?
Perceptual Content
Introduction
Simple Seeing
Excerpts from The Varieties of Reference
Non-conceptual Content
Experience Without the Head
Animal Minds
Introduction
Rational Animals
The Problem of Simple Minds: Is There Anything it is Like to be a Honey Bee?
Why the Question of Animal Consciousness Might Not Matter Very Much
Emotion
Introduction
Emotions and Choice
Embodied Emotions
Is Emotion a Natural Kind?
Author Index
Subject Index