Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and PsychologyThis collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions. This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions. The essays are grouped into four sections: Intentional Explanation and Attributions of Mentality; The Nature of Theory in Psychology; Objects of Consciousness and the Nature of Experience; and Free Will and Personhood. |
Contents
Intentional Systems | 3 |
Reply to Arbib and Gunderson | 23 |
Brain Writing and Mind Reading | 39 |
Skinner Skinned | 53 |
Why the Law of Effect Will Not Go Away | 71 |
A Cure for the Common Code? | 90 |
Artificial Intelligence as Philosophy and as Psychology | 109 |
Are Dreams Experiences? | 129 |
Two Approaches to Mental Images | 174 |
Why You Cant Make a Computer that Feels Pain | 190 |
Mechanism and Responsibility | 233 |
The Abilities of Men and Machines | 256 |
On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want | 286 |
How to Change Your Mind | 300 |
Acknowledgements | 339 |
Toward a Cognitive Theory of Consciousness | 149 |