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| Preface to the Third Edition Edition | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Experience and Reality | |
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| The Unavoidability of the Philosophy of Mind | |
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| Science and Metaphysics | |
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| Metaphysics and Cognitive Science | |
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| A Look Ahead | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Cartesian Dualism | |
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| Science and Philosophy | |
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| Descartes's Dualism | |
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| Substances, Attributes, Modes | |
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| The Metaphysics of Cartesian Dualism | |
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| Mind-Body Interaction | |
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| A Causally Closed Universe | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Descartes's Legacy | |
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| Dualism without Interaction: Parallelism | |
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| Occasionalism | |
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| Causation and Occasionalism | |
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| Idealism | |
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| Mind and Meaning | |
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| Epiphenomenalism | |
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| Behaviorism | |
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| Moving Away from Dualism | |
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| Historical and Philosophical Background | |
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| Other Minds | |
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| The Beetle in the Box | |
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| Philosophical Behaviorism | |
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| Dispositions | |
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| Behavioral Analysis | |
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| Sensation | |
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| The Legacy of Philosophical Behaviorism | |
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| Intrinsic Characteristics | |
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| 'Experimental Methods and Conceptual Confusion' | |
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| Psychological Behaviorism | |
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| The Demise of Behaviorism | |
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| Behavior | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| The Identity Theory | |
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| From Correlation to Identification | |
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| Parsimony | |
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| Self-Conscious Thought | |
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| Locating Mental Qualities | |
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| Substances, Properties, States, and Events | |
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| Predicates and Properties | |
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| Strict Identity | |
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| Leibniz's Law | |
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| The $64 Question | |
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| The Phenomenological Fallacy | |
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| Epistemological Loose Ends | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Functionalism | |
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| The Rise of Functionalism | |
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| The Functionalist Picture | |
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| Abstraction as Partial Consideration | |
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| Minds as Programs | |
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| Functional Explanation | |
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| Functionalist Metaphysics | |
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| Functionalism and Materialism | |
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| Functional Properties | |
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| Mental Properties as Functional Properties | |
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| Functionalism and Behaviorism | |
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| Characterizing Functional States | |
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| Functional Systems Generally | |
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| Moving Beyond Analogy | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| The Representational Theory of Mind | |
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| Mental Representation | |
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| Semantic Engines | |
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| Minds as Semantic Engines | |
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| The Turing Test | |
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| The Chinese Room | |
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| From Syntax to Semantics | |
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| Thinking as Computing | |
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| Levels of Description | |
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| From Taxonomy to Ontology | |
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| Layers of Reality | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| The Intentional Stance | |
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| Minds as Constructs | |
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| Taking a Stance | |
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| From Intentional Stance to Design Stance | |
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| From Design Stance to Physical Stance | |
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| The Emerging Picture | |
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| Thought and Language | |
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| Kinds of Mind | |
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| Consciousness | |
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| Searle's Objection | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Eliminativism | |
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| From Instrumentalism to Eliminativism | |
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| Ontological Commitment | |
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| Theories and Theory Reduction | |
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| Stich's Argument | |
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| Prospects for Reduction or Elimination | |
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| Is Eliminativism Self-Refuting? | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Consciousness | |
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| The Status of 'Raw Feels' | |
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| The Mystery of Consciousness | |
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| Qualities of Conscious Experiences | |
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| Zombies | |
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| Biting the Bullet | |
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| Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary | |
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| Emergence and Panpsychism | |
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| Representationalism | |
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| Consciousness as Higher-Order Representation | |
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| Explaining Consciousness | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Non-Reductive Physicalism | |
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| From Substances to Properties | |
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| Substance Monism, Property Dualism | |
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| Mental Causation: Background Issues | |
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| Mental-Physical Supervenience | |
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| Causal Relevance | |
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| The Causal Relevance of Mental Properties | |
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| The Challenge of Causal Relevance | |
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| Jettisoning Higher-Level Properties | |
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| The Upshot | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Metaphysics and Mind | |
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| The Status of Philosophies of Mind | |
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| Metaphysical Preliminaries | |
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| Substances and Properties | |
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| Universals | |
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| Properties as Particularized Ways | |
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| Powerful Qualities | |
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| Manifestations of Dispositions | |
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| Causality and Dispositionality | |
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| Complex Objects | |
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| Emergence | |
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| Levels of Being | |
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| Predicates and Properties | |
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| Properties, Realism, and Anti-Realism | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| The Mind's Place in Nature | |
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| Applied Metaphysics | |
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| Multiple Readability | |
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| An Alternative Approach | |
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| Higher-Level Properties | |
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| Causality and Ceteris Paribus Laws | |
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| Levels of Reality vs. Levels of Description | |
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| Zombies (Again) | |
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| Qualities of Conscious Experience | |
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| Neutral Monism | |
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| 'Privileged Access' | |
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| Imagery and Intentionality | |
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| Putting Imagery to Work | |
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| Twin-Earth | |
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| Intentionality Delivered | |
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| Functionalism Adieu | |
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| D�nouement | |
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| Concluding Note | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |