Identifying the Mind Selected Papers of U. T. Place

by Place, U. T.; Graham, George; Valentine, Elizabeth R.

• ISBN13: 9780195161373
• ISBN10: 0195161378
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the one and only book by the pioneer of the identity theory of mind. The collection focuses on Place's philosophy of mind and his contributions to neighboring issues in metaphysics and epistemology. It includes an autobiographical essay as well as a recent paper on the function and neural location of consciousness.

Table of Contents

Editorial Introduction: Place in Mind and Mind in Place	3	(11)
George Graham
Elizabeth R. Valentine
From Mystical Experience to Biological Consciousness: A Pilgrim's Progress?	14	(16)
The Concept of Heed	30	(15)
Is Consciousness a Brain Process?	45	(8)
Materialism as a Scientific Hypothesis	53	(3)
Consciousness in Psychology	56	(7)
The Infallibility of Our Knowledge of Our Own Beliefs	63	(7)
Thirty Years On---Is Consciousness Still a Brain Process?	70	(11)
Token- versus Type-Identity Physicalism	81	(9)
The Two-Factor Theory of the Mind-Brain Relation	90	(14)
The Causal Potency of Qualia: Its Nature and Its Source	104	(9)
Consciousness and the ``Zombie-Within'': A Functional Analysis of the Blindsight Evidence	113	(25)
On the Social Relativity of Truth and the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction	138	(17)
The Role of the Ethnomethodological Experiment in the Empirical Investigation of Social Norms and Its Application to Conceptual Analysis	155	(10)
Linguistic Behaviorism as a Philosophy of Empirical Science	165	(20)
Appendix: Publications of U.T. Place	185	(6)
Notes	191	(10)
References	201	(10)
Index	211