Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Part One: Historical Background
- Plato: The Soul and the Forms
- Plato: Selections from The Phaedo
- Aristotle: Naturalizing the Soul
- Aristotle: Selections from On the Soul and Sense and Sensibilia
- The Scientific Revolution
- Galileo Galilei: Selections from The Assayer
- René Descartes: Selections from The World or Treatise on Light
- René Descartes: Selections from Principles of Philosophy
- Descartes: Knowledge of Mind and Matter
- René Descartes: Selections from Meditations on First Philosophy
- Descartes’ Dualism
- René Descartes: Selections from Discourse on the Method of rightly conducting one’s reason and
seeking the truth in the sciences - Antoine Arnauld: Objections to Descartes’ Meditations
- René Descartes: Reply to Antoine Arnauld
- René Descartes: Selections from Principles of Philosophy
- John Locke: Selections from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Materialism and Idealism
- Thomas Hobbes: Selections from Leviathan
- George Berkeley: Selections from A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Part Two: Recent Theories of Mind
- Behaviourism and Linguistic Philosophy
- B.F. Skinner: Selections from Science and Human Behavior
- Noam Chomsky: A Review of B.F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior
- Gilbert Ryle: Selections from The Concept of Mind
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: Selections from Philosophical Investigations
- The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
- U.T. Place: “Is Consciousness a Brain Process?”
- J.J.C. Smart: “Sensations and Brain Processes”
- Saul Kripke: Selections from “Identity and Necessity”
- Functionalism
- David M. Armstrong: “The Nature of Mind”
- Jerry A. Fodor: “The Mind-Body Problem”
- Ned Block: Selections from “Troubles with Functionalism”
Part Three: Contemporary Issues
- Artificial Intelligence
- Alan Turing: “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”
- John R. Searle: “Minds, Brains and Programs”
- Margaret A. Boden: “Escaping from the Chinese Room”
- Consciousness
- Thomas Nagel: “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”
- Frank Jackson: “Epiphenomenal Qualia”
- Daniel C. Dennett: “Quining Qualia”
- David J. Chalmers: “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness”
- Valerie Gray Hardcastle: “The Why of Consciousness: A Non-Issue for Materialists”
- Propositional Attitudes
- Jerry A. Fodor: “Propositional Attitudes”
- Paul Churchland: “Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes”
- Daniel C. Dennett: “True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works”
- Mental Content: Natural Semantics
- Fred I. Dretske: Précis of Knowledge and the Flow of Information
- Ruth Millikan: “Biosemantics”
- Mental Content: Individuation
- Jerry A. Fodor: Selections from “Methodological Solipsism Considered as a Research Strategy in
Cognitive Psychology” - Hilary Putnam: Selections from Reason, Truth and History
- Mental Causation
- Donald Davidson: “Mental Events” and a Selection from “Psychology as
Philosophy” - Jaegwon Kim: Selection from “The Many Problems of Mental Causation”
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Index