The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Mental Language: 1. Mentalistic constructs; 2. The Representational Theory of the Mind; 3. Folk psychology and Representationalism; 4. Sententialism; 5. The regress of embedded agents; 6. Notation and content; Part II. The Frame Problem and Scripts: 7. Combinatorial explosion; 8. The range and context of scripts; 9. Modular cognitive systems; Part III. Intelligence, Rationality and Behavior: 10. Intelligent behavior and brute reaction; 11. Rationality and behavior; 12. Causal waywardness; 13. Empirical tests of rationality; Part IV. Along the Cognitive Spectrum: 14. The scope of Sententialism; 15. From infant to adult; 16. Doxastic holism and Mentalese ambiguity; Part V. The Matter of Intentionality: 17. Searle's argument against Artificial Intelligence; 18. Artificial Intelligence at bay; 19. Language comprehension and translation; 20. Fragmented agents; 21. Cognitive psychology as a formal theory; 22. The mundane matter of mind; Part VI. Fixing the Content of Mental Sentences: 23. Empiricism and mental representations; 24. A causal explanation of sensuous representation; 25. Objections and replies; 26. Sensory doppelgangers; 27. Up from sensation; 28. Meaning and definition; Part VII. The Quality of Consciousness: 28. Functional accounts of consciousness; 29. Could qualia be non-psychological?; 30. Sententialism and consciousness; 31. Sensation and qualia; 32. Moods; 33. The subjectivity of consciousness; 34. What it is like to be different; 35. Artificial consciousness; References; Index.