Philosophy of Mind
Jacquette, Dale
Philosophy of Mind The Metaphysics of Consciousness - New York Continuum International Publishing Group Inc. 2009 - 307p
includes index and biblioraphy
Introduction The Ontology of Mind 1. What is the mind? 2. Ontological alternatives 3. Interpretation and method 1 Dualisms of Mental and Physical Phenomena 1. The mind-body problem 2. Substance dualism 3. Descartes` first argument 4. Descartes` second argument 5. Causal interaction problem 6. Berkeley`s idealist `dualism` of minds and ideas 7. Property dualism 8. Kripke`s modal analysis of property dualism 9. Objections to property dualism 9.1. Inconsistency of irreducibility and emergence claims in property dualism 9.2. Incoherence of chronologically fundamental and evolutionarily emergent psychological properties 9.3. Ontological economy of eliminativism and reductivism 9.4. Explanatory disadvantages of property dualism 9.5. Causal irrelevance of intentional epiphenomena 9.6. Objection from evolutionary science 10. Neurophysiology of the phantom limb 11. Scientific psychology and the metaphysics of mind 2 Elimination and Reduction Strategies for the Concept of Mind: Behaviourism, Materialism, Functionalism 1. Ockham`s Razor 2. Classical behaviourism 3. Logical behaviourism: Ryle`s exorcism of the ghost in the machine 4. Mind-brain identity: eliminative and reductive materialisms 5. Armstrong`s materialist logical behaviourism 6. Stich`s theory of brain sentence tokens 7. Functionalism and computationalism 8. Qualia and content for Nagel`s bat and Jackson`s colour scientist 9. McGinn`s naturalistic mysterianism 10. Denying the obvious 3 Artificial Intelligence: Mechanism, Minds and Machines 1. Can machines think? 2. Mechanical models of mind 3. From La Mettrie to von Neumann 4. Turing`s test of machine intelligence 5. Rule-structured programming 6. Parallel distributed processing (connectionism) 7. Searle`s Chinese Room 8. Lucas` Godel sentence criterion 9. What computers can and cannot do 10. Understanding and the mechanization of meaning 11. Lloyd`s simple mechanical minds 12. Intrinsic versus extrinsic representation 13. Smoke, fog and mirrors 14. Creativity problems for minds and machines 15. Mechanism and intentionality 4 Intentionality and the Nature of Thought 1. Intentionality 2. Brentano`s intentionality thesis 3. Primacy of the intentional, ineliminability and irreducibility 4. Fodor`s objection to the irreducibility of intentionality 5. Chisholm and Sellars on the intentionality of thought and language 6. Demystifying intentionality 7. Putnam`s Twin Earth counterexample 8. In defence of folk psychology 9. Intentionality of sensation as the basis of thought 10. Dennett`s intentional stance 11. Searle`s mind-body antireductionism 12. Logical triviality problem 13. Implications and critique of Searle`s antireductionism 14. Alternative concepts of mind-body reduction 15. Why do pains hurt? 16. Sentience, consciousness, self-consciousness 17. Self identity puzzles 18. The intended self 5 Supervenience and the Emergence of Consciousness 1. Qualia and intentionality 2. Modes and models of consciousness 3. Kirn on weak and strong supervenience 4. Emergence as super-supervenience 5. Ontic and explanatory priority of intentionality 6. Chalmers on the supervenience of intentionality on qualia 7. Super-supervenience and the metaphysics of emergence 8. Collective intentionality 9. Searle`s irreducible `We intend` 10. Language, meaning and cointentionality 11. Epistemic dimensions of collective intentionality 12. Social implications of language 13. Origin of social institutions 14. Derivative qualia as poetry 6 The Dignity of Mind 1. Ascent of the mind 2. Emergence and supervenience 3. The privacy of experience 4. Wittgenstein`s private language argument 5. Solipsism and knowledge of other minds 6. Agent causation 7. Intentionality and intention in action 8. Freedom of action,purpose and the will 9. Helmholtz`s critique of agent causation 10. Passions of the soul:sensation,emotion,
9780826499189 1565
N36 / J166
Philosophy of Mind The Metaphysics of Consciousness - New York Continuum International Publishing Group Inc. 2009 - 307p
includes index and biblioraphy
Introduction The Ontology of Mind 1. What is the mind? 2. Ontological alternatives 3. Interpretation and method 1 Dualisms of Mental and Physical Phenomena 1. The mind-body problem 2. Substance dualism 3. Descartes` first argument 4. Descartes` second argument 5. Causal interaction problem 6. Berkeley`s idealist `dualism` of minds and ideas 7. Property dualism 8. Kripke`s modal analysis of property dualism 9. Objections to property dualism 9.1. Inconsistency of irreducibility and emergence claims in property dualism 9.2. Incoherence of chronologically fundamental and evolutionarily emergent psychological properties 9.3. Ontological economy of eliminativism and reductivism 9.4. Explanatory disadvantages of property dualism 9.5. Causal irrelevance of intentional epiphenomena 9.6. Objection from evolutionary science 10. Neurophysiology of the phantom limb 11. Scientific psychology and the metaphysics of mind 2 Elimination and Reduction Strategies for the Concept of Mind: Behaviourism, Materialism, Functionalism 1. Ockham`s Razor 2. Classical behaviourism 3. Logical behaviourism: Ryle`s exorcism of the ghost in the machine 4. Mind-brain identity: eliminative and reductive materialisms 5. Armstrong`s materialist logical behaviourism 6. Stich`s theory of brain sentence tokens 7. Functionalism and computationalism 8. Qualia and content for Nagel`s bat and Jackson`s colour scientist 9. McGinn`s naturalistic mysterianism 10. Denying the obvious 3 Artificial Intelligence: Mechanism, Minds and Machines 1. Can machines think? 2. Mechanical models of mind 3. From La Mettrie to von Neumann 4. Turing`s test of machine intelligence 5. Rule-structured programming 6. Parallel distributed processing (connectionism) 7. Searle`s Chinese Room 8. Lucas` Godel sentence criterion 9. What computers can and cannot do 10. Understanding and the mechanization of meaning 11. Lloyd`s simple mechanical minds 12. Intrinsic versus extrinsic representation 13. Smoke, fog and mirrors 14. Creativity problems for minds and machines 15. Mechanism and intentionality 4 Intentionality and the Nature of Thought 1. Intentionality 2. Brentano`s intentionality thesis 3. Primacy of the intentional, ineliminability and irreducibility 4. Fodor`s objection to the irreducibility of intentionality 5. Chisholm and Sellars on the intentionality of thought and language 6. Demystifying intentionality 7. Putnam`s Twin Earth counterexample 8. In defence of folk psychology 9. Intentionality of sensation as the basis of thought 10. Dennett`s intentional stance 11. Searle`s mind-body antireductionism 12. Logical triviality problem 13. Implications and critique of Searle`s antireductionism 14. Alternative concepts of mind-body reduction 15. Why do pains hurt? 16. Sentience, consciousness, self-consciousness 17. Self identity puzzles 18. The intended self 5 Supervenience and the Emergence of Consciousness 1. Qualia and intentionality 2. Modes and models of consciousness 3. Kirn on weak and strong supervenience 4. Emergence as super-supervenience 5. Ontic and explanatory priority of intentionality 6. Chalmers on the supervenience of intentionality on qualia 7. Super-supervenience and the metaphysics of emergence 8. Collective intentionality 9. Searle`s irreducible `We intend` 10. Language, meaning and cointentionality 11. Epistemic dimensions of collective intentionality 12. Social implications of language 13. Origin of social institutions 14. Derivative qualia as poetry 6 The Dignity of Mind 1. Ascent of the mind 2. Emergence and supervenience 3. The privacy of experience 4. Wittgenstein`s private language argument 5. Solipsism and knowledge of other minds 6. Agent causation 7. Intentionality and intention in action 8. Freedom of action,purpose and the will 9. Helmholtz`s critique of agent causation 10. Passions of the soul:sensation,emotion,
9780826499189 1565
N36 / J166