The Philosophy of Mind

by Beakley, Brian; Ludlow, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780262524513
• ISBN10: 0262524511
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-28
• Publisher: Bradford Books

Summary

The Philosophy of Mindremains the only sourcebook of primary readings offering in-depth coverage of both historical works and contemporary controversies in philosophy of mind. This second edition provides an expanded treatment of classical as well as current topics, with many additional readings and a new section on mental content. The writers included range from Aristotle, Descartes, and William James to such leading contemporary thinkers as Noam Chomsky, Paul and Patricia Churchland, and Jaegwon Kim. The 83 selections provide a thorough survey of five areas of enduring controversy: the mind-body problem, mental causation, mental content, innatism and modularity, and associationism and connectionism. Each section includes an introductory overview of the topic by the editors as well as suggestions for further reading. The selections added for the second edition serve both to enhance historical coverage and to update contemporary issues, especially in areas of current empirical research such as connectionism and innatism. Changes to historical coverage include a wider array of readings on classic positions as well as neglected precursors to views often considered recent innovations. The section on the mind-body problem in particular has been greatly expanded, including numerous selections on consciousness and phenomenal qualities (qualia). The book is ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy and the history of psychology and will be useful both as a reference for researchers and as a self-contained survey for the general reader.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	xi
Sources	xiii
I. The Mind--Body Problem	1	(346)
Introduction	3	(16)
Classic Positions	19	(2)
From Metaphysics, Book 7, and On the Soul, Book 2	21	(4)
Aristotle
From Meditations on First Philosophy II and VI and Replies to Objections II	25	(2)
Rene Descartes
From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	27	(4)
John Locke
From The Principles of Human Knowledge	31	(4)
George Berkeley
From The Monadology	35	(6)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
From Man a Machine	41	(6)
Julien Offray DeLaMettrie
From Positivism	47	(10)
Auguste Comte
From A System of Logic	57	(4)
John Stuart Mill
From ``Does `Consciousness' Exist?''	61	(10)
William James
From ``The Province of Functional Psychology''	71	(6)
James Rowland Angell
From The Concept of Mind	77	(12)
Gilbert Ryle
Materialism(s): Function, Reduction, and Elimination	87	(2)
Is Consciousness a Brain Process?	89	(8)
U. T. Place
The Nature of Mental States	97	(10)
Hilary Putnam
Troubles with Functionalism (revised)	107	(26)
Ned Block
Minds, Brains, and Programs	133	(18)
John R. Searle
Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes	151	(18)
Paul Churchland
From Neurophilosophy	169	(10)
Patricia Smith Churchland
Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction	179	(22)
Jaegwon Kim
From Language and Problems of Knowledge	201	(4)
Noam Chomsky
From The Empirical Stance	205	(14)
Bas van Fraassen
Mind and Subjective Experience	217	(2)
From Mind and the World Order	219	(10)
C. I. Lewis
From ``The `Mental' and the `Physical'''	229	(14)
Herbert Feigl
Sensations and Brain Processes	243	(12)
J. J. C. Smart
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?	255	(12)
Thomas Nagel
Functionalism and Qualia	267	(18)
Sydney Shoemaker
From ``Identity and Necessity''	285	(6)
Saul Kripke
Form, Function, and Feel	291	(20)
William Lycan
Epiphenomenal Qualia	311	(10)
Frank Jackson
Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?	321	(16)
Colin McGinn
Physicalism and the Cognitive Role of Acquaintance	337	(10)
Laurence Nemirow
II. Mental Causation	347	(122)
Introduction	349	(6)
From The Passions of the Soul	355	(6)
Rene Descartes
From The Search after Truth	361	(4)
Nicolas Malebranche
A New System of the Nature and the Communication of Substances	365	(4)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
From Critique of Pure Reason	369	(12)
Immanuel Kant
From ``On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata''	381	(4)
Thomas Henry Huxley
Mental Events	385	(14)
Donald Davidson
Mind Matters	399	(10)
Ernest LePore
Barry Loewer
Making Mind Matter More	409	(18)
Jerry A. Fodor
The Myth of Nonreductive Materialism	427	(16)
Jaegwon Kim
Causation in the Philosophy of Mind	443	(18)
Frank Jackson
Philip Pettit
From ``Physicalism from a Probabilistic Point of View''	461	(8)
Elliott Sober
III. Mental Content	469	(212)
Introduction	471	(12)
From On the Soul, Book 3	483	(4)
Aristotle
From Meditations on First Philosophy and Replies to Objections I--IV	487	(2)
Rene Descartes
From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	489	(10)
John Locke
From A Treatise of Human Nature	499	(6)
David Hume
From Discourse on Metaphysics and Correspondence with Arnauld	505	(4)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
From ``How to Make Our Ideas Clear''	509	(6)
Charles S. Peirce
From ``The Theory of Objects''	515	(8)
Alexius Meinong
From The Problems of Philosophy	523	(8)
Bertrand Russell
From Mind and the World Order	531	(8)
C. I. Lewis
From ``The Meaning of `Meaning'''	539	(18)
Hilary Putnam
From ``Individualism and the Mental''	557	(18)
Tyler Burge
Methodological Solipsism Considered as a Research Strategy in Cognitive Psychology	575	(22)
Jerry A. Fodor
Misrepresentation	597	(14)
Fred Dretske
From ``(Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics''	611	(12)
Gilbert Harman
Social Content and Psychological Content	623	(12)
Brian Loar
Wide Computationalism	635	(20)
Robert A. Wilson
From A Slim Book on Narrow Content	655	(26)
Gabriel Segal
IV. Innateness and Modularity	681	(190)
Introduction	683	(8)
From The Meno	691	(8)
Plato
From Posterior Analytics, Book II, Chapter 19	699	(2)
Aristotle
From Replies to Objections V and ``Notes Directed against a Certain Program''	701	(4)
Rene Descartes
From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	705	(12)
John Locke
From New Essays on Human Understanding	717	(4)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
From Phrenology	721	(12)
J. G. Spurzheim
From The Language of Thought	733	(8)
Jerry A. Fodor
The Psychogenesis of Knowledge and Its Epistemological Significance	741	(10)
Jean Piaget
On Cognitive Structures and Their Development: A Reply to Piaget	751	(6)
Noam Chomsky
What Is Innate and Why: Comments on the Debate	757	(14)
Hilary Putnam
From Rules and Representations	771	(10)
Noam Chomsky
From Modularity of Mind	781	(16)
Jerry A. Fodor
Against Modularity	797	(24)
William Marslen-Wilson
Lorraine Komisarjevsky Tyler
The Modularity of Thought and the Epidemiology of Representations	821	(26)
Dan Sperber
Dissociation and Modularity: Reflections on Language and Mind	847	(24)
Neil Smith
V. Associationism and Connectionism	871	(178)
Introduction	873	(6)
From Leviathan	879	(4)
Thomas Hobbes
From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	883	(4)
John Locke
From A System of Logic	887	(4)
John Stuart Mill
From The Principles of Psychology	891	(8)
William James
The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing	899	(22)
James L. McClelland
David E. Rumelhart
Geoffrey E. Hinton
Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis	921	(40)
Jerry A. Fodor
Zenon W. Pylyshyn
The Constituent Structure of Connectionist Mental States: A Reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn	961	(22)
Paul Smolensky
Connectionism and the Problem of Systematicity: Why Smolensky's Solution Doesn't Work	983	(18)
Jerry A. Fodor
Brian P. McLaughlin
What Is the ``D'' in ``PDP''? A Survey of the Concept of Distribution	1001	(26)
Tim van Gelder
Connectionism, Eliminativism, and the Future of Folk Psychology	1027	(22)
William Ramsey
Stephen P. Stich
Joseph Garon
Index	1049