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Preface | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
What Is Philosophy of Mind? | p. 2 |
Metaphysical Preliminaries | p. 5 |
Mind-Body Supervenience | p. 8 |
Materialism and Physicalism | p. 11 |
Varieties of Mental Phenomena | p. 14 |
Is There a "Mark of the Mental"? | p. 17 |
For Further Reading | p. 28 |
Notes | p. 28 |
Mind as Immaterial Substance: Descartes's Dualism | p. 31 |
Descartes's Interactionist Substance Dualism | p. 32 |
Why Minds and Bodies Are Distinct: Some Arguments | p. 35 |
Princess Elisabeth Against Descartes | p. 46 |
The "Pairing Problem": Another Causal Argument | p. 50 |
Immaterial Minds in Space? | p. 54 |
Substance Dualism and Property Dualism | p. 56 |
For Further Reading | p. 58 |
Notes | p. 58 |
Mind and Behavior: Behaviorism | p. 61 |
The Cartesian Theater and the "Beetle in the Box" | p. 63 |
What Is Behavior? | p. 66 |
Logical Behaviorism: A Positivist Argument | p. 68 |
A Behavioral Translation of "Paul Has a Toothache" | p. 70 |
Difficulties with Behavioral Definitions | p. 71 |
Do Pains Entail Pain Behavior? | p. 76 |
Ontological Behaviorism | p. 78 |
The Real Relationship Between Pain and Pain Behavior | p. 80 |
Behaviorism in Psychology | p. 82 |
Why Behavior Matters to Mind | p. 86 |
For Further Reading | p. 87 |
Notes | p. 88 |
Mind as the Brain: The Psychoneural Identity Theory | p. 91 |
Mind-Brain Correlations | p. 91 |
Making Sense of Mind-Brain Correlations | p. 93 |
The Argument from Simplicity | p. 98 |
Explanatory Arguments for Psychoneural Identity | p. 102 |
An Argument from Mental Causation | p. 110 |
Against Psychoneural Identity Theory | p. 114 |
Reductive and Nonreductive Physicalism | p. 122 |
For Further Reading | p. 125 |
Notes | p. 126 |
Mind as a Computing Machine: Machine Functionalism | p. 129 |
Multiple Realizability and the Functional Conception of Mind | p. 130 |
Functional Properties and Their Realizers: Definitions | p. 134 |
Functionalism and Behaviorism | p. 136 |
Turing Machines | p. 139 |
Physical Realizers of Turing Machines | p. 144 |
Machine Functionalism: Motivations and Claims | p. 147 |
Machine Functionalism: Further Issues | p. 151 |
Can Machines Think? The Turing Test | p. 156 |
Computationalism and the "Chinese Room" | p. 160 |
For Further Reading | p. 165 |
Notes | p. 65 |
Mind as a Causal System: Causal-Theoretical Functionalism | p. 169 |
The Ramsey-Lewis Method | p. 170 |
Choosing an Underlying Psychology | p. 172 |
Functionalism as Physicalism: Psychological Reality | p. 177 |
Objections and Difficulties | p. 179 |
Roles Versus Realizers: The Status of Cognitive Science | p. 186 |
For Further Reading | p. 189 |
Notes | p. 190 |
Mental Causation | p. 193 |
Agency and Mental Causation | p. 195 |
Mental Causation, Mental Realism, and Epiphenomenalism | p. 197 |
Psychophysical Laws and "Anomalous Monism" | p. 202 |
Is Anomalous Monism a Form of Epiphenomenalism? | p. 207 |
Counterfactuals to the Rescue? | p. 209 |
Physical Causal Closure and the "Exclusion Argument" | p. 214 |
The "Supervenience Argument" and Epiphenomenalism | p. 217 |
Further Issues: The Extrinsicness of Mental States | p. 220 |
For Further Reading | p. 223 |
Notes | p. 224 |
Mental Content | p. 227 |
Interpretation Theory | p. 228 |
The Causal-Correlational Approach: Informational Semantics | p. 235 |
Misrepresentation and the Teleological Approach | p. 239 |
Narrow Content and Wide Content: Content Externalism | p. 241 |
The Metaphysics of Wide Content States | p. 248 |
Is Narrow Content Possible? | p. 251 |
Two Problems for Content Externalism | p. 254 |
For Further Reading | p. 258 |
Notes | p. 259 |
What Is Consciousness? | p. 263 |
Some Views on Consciousness | p. 264 |
Nagel and His Inscrutable Bats | p. 267 |
Phenomenal Consciousness and Access Consciousness | p. 271 |
Consciousness and Subjectivity | p. 280 |
Does Consciousness Involve Higher-Order Perception or Thought? | p. 283 |
Transparency of Experience and Qualia Representationalism | p. 289 |
For Further Reading | p. 295 |
Notes | p. 296 |
Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem | p. 301 |
The "Explanatory Gap" and the "Hard Problem" | p. 302 |
Does Consciousness Supervene on Physical Properties? | p. 306 |
Closing the Explanatory Gap: Reduction and Reductive Explanation | p. 311 |
Functional Analysis and Reductive Explanation | p. 315 |
Consciousness and Brain Science | p. 317 |
What Mary, the Supervision Scientist, Didn't Know | p. 323 |
The Limits of Physicalism | p. 326 |
For Further Reading | p. 333 |
Notes | p. 334 |
References | p. 339 |
Index | p. 355 |
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