A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Second Edition: Readings with Commentary (Paperback, 2, Revised)

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

Part One: Historical Background

1. Plato: The Soul and the Forms
• Plato: Selections from The Phaedo


2. Aristotle: Naturalizing the Soul
• Aristotle: Selections from On the Soul and Sense and Sensibilia


3. 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


4. Descartes: Knowledge of Mind and Matter
• René Descartes: Selections from Meditations on First Philosophy


5. 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


6. 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

7. 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


8. 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”


9. 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

10. Artificial Intelligence
• Alan Turing: “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”
• John R. Searle: “Minds, Brains and Programs”
• Margaret A. Boden: “Escaping from the Chinese Room”


11. 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”


12. 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”


13. Mental Content: Natural Semantics
• Fred I. Dretske: Précis of Knowledge and the Flow of Information
• Ruth Millikan: “Biosemantics”


14. 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


15. 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