CiNii Books - Metaphysics, 1996

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- Tomberlin, James E.

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Metaphysics, 1996

edited by James E. Tomberlin

（Philosophical perspectives, 10）

Blackwell, c1996

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"A supplement to Noûs"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Volume: ISBN 9781577181156

Description

Insights from international philosophers on a range of societal issues Metaphysics is Volume 10 of the Philosophical Perspectives Annual Volume, presenting the major papers delivered at the 1999 SOFIA conference in Mazatl?n, Mexico. Twenty works from both prominent and rising authors examine important issues including sexuality and consent, rights and scarcity, democracy and individualism, and law and punishment. Collectively, these works provide an investigative look at modern society from various global perspectives, provoking deeper thought and consideration of major issues of the day.

Table of Contents

Preface. > Part 1: Ontology: > The Identity Theory and Functionalism: > Introduction. >1. The Identity Theory: Is Consciousness a Brain Process? > U. T. Place. >2. Early Causal and Functionalist Views: The Causal Theory of Mind: > D. M. Armstrong. >The Nature of Mental States: > Hilary Putnam. >3. Anomalous Monism. Mental Events: > Donald Davidson. >4. Homuncular and Teleological Functionalism: The Appeal to Tecit Knowledge in Psychological Explanation: > Jerry A. Fodor. The Continuity of Levels of Nature: > William G. Lycan. Putting the Function Back into Functionalism: > Ellite Sober. > Part II: Instrumentalism: > Introduction. >5. An Instrumentalist Theory: True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works: > Daniel C. Dennett. Dennett on Intentional Systems: > Stephen P Stich. Real Patterns: > Daniel C. Dennett. > Part III: Eliminativism and Neurophilosophy. > >Introduction. >6. Current Eliminativism: Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes: > Paul Churchland. >7. Neurophilosophy and Connectionism: Neural Representation and Neural Computation: > Patricia Smith Churchland and Terrence Sejnowski. The Case for Connectionism: > William Bechtel. >What Might Cognition Be, If Not Computation? > Tim Van Gelder. > Part IV: The 'Language of Thought' Hypothesis. > >Introduction. >8. Defending the 'Language of Thought': Why There Still Has to Be a Language of Thought: > Jerry A. Fodor. >9. Attacking the 'Language of Thought': Stalking the Wild Epistemic Engine: > Paul M. Churchland and Patricia Smith Churchland. >10. Psychosemantics: Biosemantics: > Ruth Garrett Millikan. A Theory of Content: > Jerry A Fodor. > Part V: The Status of Folk Psychology: > Introduction. >11. Attacking 'Folk Psychology': Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis: > Stephen P Stich. >12. Defending 'Folk Psychology': Folk Psychology is Here to Stay: > Terence Horgan and James Woodward. >13. The Debate of Narrow Content: A Narrow Representational Theory of the Mind: > Michael Devitt. Narrow Content Meets Fat Syntax: > Stephen P Stich. >14. Supervenient Causation: Mental Causation: > Jaegwon Kim. >Type Epiphenomenalism, Type Dualism, and the Causal Priority of the Physical: > Brian McLaughlin. >15. Wide Causation: Individualism and Supervenience: > Jerry A. Fodor. An A Priori Argument: The Argument from Causal Powers: > Robert A. Wilson. >16. Self Knowledge: Knowing One's Mind: > Donald Davidson. Privileged Access: > John Heil. >17. The Simulation Theory: Folk Psychology as Simulation: > Robert Gordon. The Mental Simulation Debate: > Martin Davies. > Part VI: Consciousness, 'Qualia,' and Subjectivity: > Introduction. >18.'Qualia' - Based Objections to Functionalism: An Excerpt from 'Troubles with Functionalism': > Ned Block. Epiphenomenal Qualia: > Frank Jackson. >19. Functionalist Responses: What Experience Teaches: > David Lewis. >Understanding the Phenomenal Mind: Are We All Just Armadillos? > Robert Van Gulick. >20. The Rep... (Part Contents).

Volume: : pbk ISBN 9781577181163

Table of Contents

Preface. > Part 1: Ontology: > The Identity Theory and Functionalism: > Introduction. >1. The Identity Theory: Is Consciousness a Brain Process? > U. T. Place. >2. Early Causal and Functionalist Views: The Causal Theory of Mind: > D. M. Armstrong. >The Nature of Mental States: > Hilary Putnam. >3. Anomalous Monism. Mental Events: > Donald Davidson. >4. Homuncular and Teleological Functionalism: The Appeal to Tecit Knowledge in Psychological Explanation: > Jerry A. Fodor. The Continuity of Levels of Nature: > William G. Lycan. Putting the Function Back into Functionalism: > Ellite Sober. > Part II: Instrumentalism: > Introduction. >5. An Instrumentalist Theory: True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works: > Daniel C. Dennett. Dennett on Intentional Systems: > Stephen P Stich. Real Patterns: > Daniel C. Dennett. > Part III: Eliminativism and Neurophilosophy. > >Introduction. >6. Current Eliminativism: Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes: > Paul Churchland. >7. Neurophilosophy and Connectionism: Neural Representation and Neural Computation: > Patricia Smith Churchland and Terrence Sejnowski. The Case for Connectionism: > William Bechtel. >What Might Cognition Be, If Not Computation? > Tim Van Gelder. > Part IV: The 'Language of Thought' Hypothesis. > >Introduction. >8. Defending the 'Language of Thought': Why There Still Has to Be a Language of Thought: > Jerry A. Fodor. >9. Attacking the 'Language of Thought': Stalking the Wild Epistemic Engine: > Paul M. Churchland and Patricia Smith Churchland. >10. Psychosemantics: Biosemantics: > Ruth Garrett Millikan. A Theory of Content: > Jerry A Fodor. > Part V: The Status of Folk Psychology: > Introduction. >11. Attacking 'Folk Psychology': Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis: > Stephen P Stich. >12. Defending 'Folk Psychology': Folk Psychology is Here to Stay: > Terence Horgan and James Woodward. >13. The Debate of Narrow Content: A Narrow Representational Theory of the Mind: > Michael Devitt. Narrow Content Meets Fat Syntax: > Stephen P Stich. >14. Supervenient Causation: Mental Causation: > Jaegwon Kim. >Type Epiphenomenalism, Type Dualism, and the Causal Priority of the Physical: > Brian McLaughlin. >15. Wide Causation: Individualism and Supervenience: > Jerry A. Fodor. An A Priori Argument: The Argument from Causal Powers: > Robert A. Wilson. >16. Self Knowledge: Knowing One's Mind: > Donald Davidson. Privileged Access: > John Heil. >17. The Simulation Theory: Folk Psychology as Simulation: > Robert Gordon. The Mental Simulation Debate: > Martin Davies. > Part VI: Consciousness, 'Qualia,' and Subjectivity: > Introduction. >18.'Qualia' - Based Objections to Functionalism: An Excerpt from 'Troubles with Functionalism': > Ned Block. Epiphenomenal Qualia: > Frank Jackson. >19. Functionalist Responses: What Experience Teaches: > David Lewis. >Understanding the Phenomenal Mind: Are We All Just Armadillos? > Robert Van Gulick. >20. The Rep... (Part Contents).

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