TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stout, Rowland
AU  - Stout,Rowland
TI  - The Inner Life of a Rational Agent: In Defence of Philosophical Behaviourism
SN  - 9780748623433
U1  - N36(O80) 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Part I    Context  1    Introduction	3  I Behaviourism	3  II Zombies	6  III Super-spartans	9  IV Reductive and Non-reductive Behaviourism	12  V Outline of the Book	14  2    Behaviourism	21  I Psychological Behaviourism	21  II The Philosophical Roots of Behaviourism:Positivism or Pragmatism	25  III Anti-realism about the Mind	29  IV Criterial versus Dispositional Behaviourism	33  3    Functionalism	37  I The Rise of Cognitivism and Functionalism	37  II Theories of Behaviour	42  III Normative Functionalism	45  IV An Argument against Normative Functionalism	48  V Theory Theory and Simulation Theory	52  VI Conclusion	54  Part II    What is a Disposition to Behave in a Certain Way?  4    Dispositions to Behave	61  I The Argument from Causation	61  II Ryle`s Dispositions	65  III Dispositions and Causal Explanation	69  IV Mental States as Input Causes or Framework Causes?	73  5 Ways of Behaving	78  I Introduction	78  II Internalist and Externalist Models of Teleological Explanation	79  III Why aren`t all Dispositions Trivially Teleological?	85  IV The Need for Norms	87  V Norm-governed Behaviour	90  VI Conclusion	96  6. Rationality and Interpretation	99  I The Structure of Practical Rationality	99  II Psychological or Non-psychological Conceptions of Practical Rationality	106  III The Holism of the Mental	109  IV The Dynamics of Interpretation	114  Part III    The Theory Applied  7    Beliefs  I Introduction  II Cambridge Behaviourists  III Belief as a State  IV Belief and Judgement  V Individuation of Beliefs  8    Intentions  I Intentions as States of Mind that Cause Behaviour  II Intention and Belief III Intention and Commitment  9    Knowledge  I Sensitivity to Facts  II Knowledge and Belief  III The Objects of Knowledge  IV Sensitivity to Evidence  V What is it for Something to be Evident?  10    Consciousness  I Types of Consciousness  II	Consciousness and Knowledge  III	Self-knowledge  IV	Qualia  V	State of Play
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