Mind and cognition : an anthology / edited by by William G. Lycan.
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TextSeries: Blackwell philosophy anthologies | Blackwell philosophy anthologies ; 8Publication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 1999.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xii, 540p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780631205456 (pbk.) :
- 0631212043(hardcover : alk. paper)
- 128.2 LYC
- BF171 .M55 1999
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Previous ed.: 1990.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface. Part 1: Ontology: The Identity Theory and Functionalism: Introduction. 1. The Identity Theory: Is Consciousness a Brain Process?: U. T. Place. 2. Early Causal and Functionalist Views: The Causal Theory of Mind: D. M. Armstrong. 3. The Nature of Mental States: Hilary Putnam. 4. Anomalous Monism: Mental Events: Donald Davidson. 5. Homuncular and Teleological Functionalism: The Appeal to Tecit Knowledge in Psychological Explanation: Jerry A. Fodor. 6. The Continuity of Levels of Nature: William G. Lycan. 7. Putting the Function Back into Functionalism: Ellite Sober. Part II: Instrumentalism: Introduction. 8. An Instrumentalist Theory: True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works: Daniel C. Dennett. 9. Dennett on Intentional Systems: Stephen P Stich. Real Patterns: Daniel C. Dennett. Part III: Eliminativism and Neurophilosophy: Introduction. 11. Current Eliminativism: Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes: Paul Churchland. 12. Neurophilosophy and Connectionism: Neural Representation and Neural Computation: Patricia Smith Churchland and Terrence Sejnowski. 13. The Case for Connectionism: William Bechtel. 14. What Might Cognition Be, If Not Computation?: Tim Van Gelder. Part IV: The \'Language of Thought\' Hypothesis: Introduction. 15. Defending the \'Language of Thought\': Why There Still Has to Be a Language of Thought: Jerry A. Fodor. 16. Attacking the \'Language of Thought\': Stalking the Wild Epistemic Engine: Paul M. Churchland and Patricia Smith Churchland. 17. Psychosemantics: Biosemantics: Ruth Garrett Millikan. 18. A Theory of Content: Jerry A. Fodor. Part V: The Status of Folk Psychology: Introduction. 19. Attacking \'Folk Psychology\': Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis: Stephen P. Stich. 20. Defending \'Folk Psychology\': Folk Psychology is Here to Stay: Terence Horgan and James Woodward. 21. The Debate of Narrow Content: A Narrow Representational Theory of the Mind: Michael Devitt.
Designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, this text provides the reader with an overview of the complex, sophisticated and sometimes conflicting developments in theories of mind that have taken place over the last 40 years.