Contemporary Philosophy of Mind A Contentiously Classical Approach

by Rey, Georges

• ISBN13: 9780631190714
• ISBN10: 0631190716
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-23
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This volume is an introduction to contemporary debates in the philosophy of mind. In particular, the author focuses on the controversial "eliminativist" and "instrumentalist" attacks - from philosophers such as of Quine, Dennett, and the Churchlands - on our ordinary concept of mind. In so doing, Rey offers an explication and defense of "mental realism", and shows how Fodor's representational theory of mind affords a compelling account of much of our ordinary mental talk of beliefs, hopes, and desires.

Author Biography

Georges Rey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. In addition to publishing numerous articles in the philosophy of mind, he is co-editor (with Barry Loewer) of Meaning and Mind (Blackwell, 1992).

Table of Contents

Preface

ntroduction

Problems and Preliminaries

The Temptations to Dualism

Eliminativism: Philosophical Issues

Eliminativism: Empirical Issues

Mentalism: Pre-Functionalist Views

Functionalism: Commonalities

Functionalism: Differences

CRTT: Computation (Meeting Descartes' Challenge)

CRTT: Representation (Meeting Brentano's Challenge)

eplies to Common Objectives

urther Capacities (Meeting Levine's Challenge)

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