Mind and Cognition An Anthology

by Lycan, William G.; Prinz, Jesse J.

• ISBN13: 9781405157841
• ISBN10: 1405157844
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

First published in 1990, Mind and Cognition: An Anthology is now firmly established as a popular teaching apparatus for upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in the philosophy of mind. This collection of classic and contemporary articles in philosophy of mind and cognition 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. For this new edition, 20 new readings are included and substantial revisions restore the balance (from the first edition) between the traditional areas of philosophy of mind and cutting edge areas of philosophy of cognitive science, such as situated cognition, animal minds and emotion. The emphasis in selection throughout has been on quality and teachability, making this volume a vital resource.

Author Biography

William G. Lycan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published widely in the field of philosophy of mind and language. His publications include Consciousness (1987), Judgement and Justification (1988), and Consciousness and Experience (1996).

Jesse J. Prinz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His books include Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perceptual Basis (2002), Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion (2004), and The Emotional Construction of Morals (2007).

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Acknowledgements

Ontology: The Identity Theory and Functionalism

Introduction

Behaviorism

Excerpt from About Behaviorism

The Identity Theory and Machine Functionalism

Is Consciousness a Brain Process?

Causal and Functionalist Views

The Causal Theory of Mind

The Nature of Mental States

Troubles with Functionalism (excerpt)

Anomalous Monism

Mental Events

Homuncular and Teleological Functionalism

The Continuity of Levels of Nature

Intentionality

Introduction

Psychosemantics

Information and Representation

Biosemantics

A Guide to Naturalizing Semantics (excerpt)

Other Approaches to Intentionality

Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality

The Computational Theory of Mind and Artificial Intelligence

Introduction

The Language of Thought and Computationalism

Why There Has to Be and How There Could Be a Private Language

Which Language Do We Think With?

Artificial Intelligence

Semantic Engines: An Introduction to Mind Design

Can Computers Think?

Eliminativism, Neurophilosophy, and Anti-Representationalism

Introduction

Eliminativism

Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes

Connectionism

Neural Representation and Neural Computation

Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture (excerpt)

Dynamical Systems Theory and Robotics

What Might Cognition Be, If Not Computation?

Intelligence Without Representation

Instrumentalism and Folk Psychology

Introduction

Instrumentalism

True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works

Dennett on Intentional Systems

Real Patterns

Simulationism and the Theory Theory

Folk Psychology as Simulation

Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory? (excerpt)

Mental Causation, Externalism, and Self-Knowledge

Introduction

For and Against Folk Psychology

Autonomous Psychology and the Belief--Desire Thesis

Folk Psychology is Here to Stay

Supervenient Causation

Mental Causation

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

For and Against Externalism

Individualism and Supervenience

The Argument from Causal Powers

Reference, Causal Powers, Externalist Intuitions, and Unicorns

Self-Knowledge

Knowing OneÆs Own Mind

Externalism and Inference

Radical Externalism

The Extended Mind

Consciousness, Qualia, and Subjectivity

Introduction

What Is Consciousness?

How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness

What Should We Expect from a Theory of Consciousness?

Consciousness and its Place in Nature (excerpt)

Conscious Awareness

A Theory of Consciousness (excerpt)

The Superiority of HOP to HOT

Perception without Awareness

What ItÆs Like

Epiphenomenal Qualia

Understanding the Phenomenal Mind: Are We All Just Armadillos?

Qualia

The Intrinsic Quality of Experience

Sensation and the Content of Experience

Blurry Images, Double Vision, and Other Oddities

Perceptual Content

Introduction

Simple Seeing

Excerpts from The Varieties of Reference

Non-conceptual Content

Experience Without the Head

Animal Minds

Introduction

Rational Animals

The Problem of Simple Minds: Is There Anything it is Like to be a Honey Bee?

Why the Question of Animal Consciousness Might Not Matter Very Much

Emotion

Introduction

Emotions and Choice

Embodied Emotions

Is Emotion a Natural Kind?

Index

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