Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings

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New York: Oxford University Press USA (2002)
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What is the mind? Is consciousness a process in the brain? How do our minds represent the world? Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings is a grand tour of writings on these and other perplexing questions about the nature of the mind. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, the book includes sixty-three selections that range from the classical contributions of Descartes to the leading edge of contemporary debates. Extensive sections cover foundational issues, the nature of consciousness, and the nature of mental content. Three of the selections are published here for the first time, while many other articles have been revised especially for this volume. Each section opens with an introduction by the editor. Philosophy of Mind is suitable for students at all levels and also for general readers.

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BD418.3.C435 2002

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9780195145816   019514581X   0195145801

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12 The Causal Theory of the Mind.D. M. Armstrong
Conceptual analysis, dualism, and the explanatory gap.Ned Block & Robert Stalnaker
Concepts of Consciousness.Ned Block
Some concepts of consciousness.Ned Block
The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena (Excerpt).Franz Brentano
E. Other Psychophysical Relations.C. D. Broad
Mechanism and Its Alternatives (Excerpt).C. D. Broad
The components of content.David Chalmers
36 The Rediscovery of Light.Paul M. Churchland
E. Higher., Order Thought and Representationalism.Explaining Consciousness
26 Quining Qualia.Daniel C. Dennett
A. Dual.Rene Descartes
Meditations on first Philosophy. Second Meditation: The nature of the Human Mind, and How It is Better Known than the Body, and Sixth Meditation: The Existence of Material Things, and the Real Distinction between Mind and Body. Reproduced from Descartes (1985).René Descartes
Passions of the Soul (Excerpt).René Descartes
Sensation and the Content of Experience.A. Distinction
A Recipe for Thought.Fred Dretske
18 Special Sciences (or: The Disunity of Science as).Jerry A. Fodor
The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality.Terence Horgan & John Tienson
The phenomenology of intentionality and the intentionality of phenomenology.Terry Horgan & John Tienson
21 Finding the Mind in the Natural World.Frank Jackson
The Many Problems of Mental Causation (Excerpt).Jaegwon Kim
What Is It Like to Be 25.Thomas Nagel
Reductionism and personal identity.Derek Parfit
A. The Nature of Intentionality.Physical Phenomena
C. The Identity Theory.U. I. Place
Brains and Behaviour1.Hilary Putnam
D. Functionalism.Hilary Putnam
B. Behaviorism.Gilbert Ryle
Descartes' Myth.Gilbert Ryle
Can Computers Think?John R. Searle
An Unfortunate Dualist.Raymond M. Smullyan
Visual qualia and visual content revisited.Michael Tye
Mental causation.Stephen Yablo

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