Mind and Cognition: An Anthology, 2nd Edition

by Editor: William Lycan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

• ISBN13: 9780631205456
• ISBN10: 0631205454
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This volume represents a vital resource - a new edition of the highly successful collection of classic and contemporary articles in philosophy of mind and cognition.First published in 1990, Mind and Cognition: An Anthology is established as arguably the most popular teaching apparatus for upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in the philosophy of mind. It 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, making available to students, teachers and researchers the very best and most influential contributions to the discipline.Retaining the same successful format as the first edition, each updated section opens with a brief, synoptic introduction to the individual field and a comprehensive further reading list, followed by three to four of the most influential papers that have been written in the philosophy of mind over the last 40 years. Along with a new section on mental causation and completely revised subject and name indexes, the collection has been substantially revised throughout to bring the volume right up-to-date.

Table of Contents

Preface

Ontology: The Identity Theory and Functionalism

Introduction

The Identity Theory: Is Consciousness a Brain Process?

Early Causal and Functionalist Views: The Causal Theory of Mind

The Nature of Mental States

Anomalous Monism: Mental Events

Homuncular and Teleological Functionalism: The Appeal to Tecit Knowledge in Psychological Explanation

The Continuity of Levels of Nature

Putting the Function Back into Functionalism

Instrumentalism

Introduction

An Instrumentalist Theory: True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works

Dennett on Intentional Systems

Eliminativism and Neurophilosophy

Introduction

Current Eliminativism: Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes

Neurophilosophy and Connectionism: Neural Representation and Neural Computation

The Case for Connectionism

What Might Cognition Be, If Not Computation?

The 'Language of Thought' Hypothesis

Introduction

Defending the 'Language of Thought': Why There Still Has to Be a Language of Thought

Attacking the 'Language of Thought': Stalking the Wild Epistemic Engine

Psychosemantics: Biosemantics

A Theory of Content

The Status of Folk Psychology

Introduction

Attacking 'Folk Psychology': Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis

Defending 'Folk Psychology': Folk Psychology is Here to Stay

The Debate of Narrow Content: A Narrow Representational Theory of the Mind

Narrow Content Meets Fat Syntax

Supervenient Causation: Mental Causation

Type Epiphenomenalism, Type Dualism, and the Causal Priority of the Physical

Wide Causation: Individualism and Supervenience

An A Priori Argument: The Argument from Causal Powers

Self Knowledge: Knowing One's Mind

Privileged Access

The Simulation Theory: Folk Psychology as Simulation

The Mental Simulation Debate

Consciousness, 'Qualia,' and Subjectivity

Introduction

'Qualia' - Based Objections to Functionalism: An Excerpt from 'troubles with Functionalism'

Epiphenomenal Qualia

Functionalist Responses: What Experience Teaches

Understanding the Phenomenal Mind: Are We All Just Armadillos?

The Representationalism Debate: The Intrinsic Quality of Experience

Inverted Earth

Emotion

Introduction

Two Theories: Cognitive Theories of Emotions

Modularity, and the Psychoevolutionary Theory

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