Persons and Their Minds

by Sprague, Elmer

• ISBN13: 9780813391274
• ISBN10: 081339127X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

"Persons and Their Minds" returns persons to the center of philosophy of mind, and advocates retiring materialism, mind-brain dualism and biological naturalism to the metaphysical scrap heap.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(4)
Acknowledgments	xiii
Part I Mindism and Personism	3	(94)
1 Mindism and Personism	3	(8)
Mindism	3	(2)
Personism	5	(6)
2 Descartes's Concept of Mind	11	(14)
Body and Mind	11	(1)
Mind as a Distinct Thing	12	(2)
Learning to Use the Word Mind	14	(2)
Other Minds	16	(1)
Human Beings and Humanlike Machines	17	(2)
Human Beings and Animals	19	(6)
3 Un-Locke-ing the Mind	25	(12)
Ideas	25	(2)
The Mind	27	(1)
Thinking	28	(1)
Knowledge	29	(1)
Inside/Outside	29	(2)
Ideas and Words	31	(1)
Conclusion	32	(5)
4 A Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Mind	37	(30)
Meaning	38	(3)
Language-Games and Language	41	(1)
Rules	42	(4)
Mental Processes	46	(5)
Other Minds	51	(4)
Personal Experience/Private Objects	55	(3)
Private Language	58	(4)
Conclusion	62	(5)
5 Ryle, Mind, and Persons	67	(18)
More About Persons	71	(1)
Opposing Mind-Body Dualism	72	(4)
Objections	76	(3)
Mind and Brain	79	(6)
6 Wittgenstein and Ryle	85	(12)
Wittgenstein	86	(2)
Ryle	88	(3)
Wittgenstein and Ryle	91	(6)
Part II Personism and Mindism	97	(86)
7 Mental Events?	97	(8)
8 Functionalism	105	(12)
An Overview	105	(1)
Fodor's Functionalism	106	(3)
Objections	109	(2)
Finding the "Mental"	111	(1)
Functionalism and Personism	112	(5)
9 Giving Persons a Hard Time	117	(28)
Buddhism's Not-Self	117	(6)
Hume's Self	123	(5)
Parfits Persons	128	(7)
Dennett's Intentional Systems	135	(10)
10 Consciousness	145	(38)
The Mystery	145	(11)
Searle's Discovery	156	(7)
Brains in the News	163	(8)
Persons and Moral Consciousness	171	(12)
Envoi	183	(2)
Bibliography	185	(4)
Index	189