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This coursebook introduces philosophy of mind as it is practiced in the third decade of the 21st century to a wide range of readers. It provides any interested student, researcher, or general reader--no matter their academic background--with an appreciation of what philosophers of mind do.
The book is particularly well-suited for classroom use: each of the twenty chapters contains enough material for one standard week of classes, including an editorial preface, an essay, a response to that essay, discussion questions, and suggestions for further readings. The forty-two contributing authors address perennial philosophical puzzles about consciousness, perception, thought, and agency from 21st century perspectives. They also address new philosophical issues that arise from research in psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. And they do so without assuming any background knowledge of philosophy or the relevant sciences, using clear prose and vivid examples to communicate what experts understand about the mind, what fascinating philosophical puzzles remain, and what solutions to those puzzles are currently under consideration. The book is thus well-positioned as a highly readable introduction for undergraduates and general readers, while also getting graduate students and professors quickly up-to-speed with current debates in philosophy of mind.
Key Features
Each of the 20 self-contained, multi-authored chapters is designed for one week of college-level instruction and includes a preface, a main essay, a response to that essay, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading
Written by an international team of 42 experts with specializations that cover all aspects of philosophy of mind
A comprehensive glossary clearly defines all important terms, which are bolded the first time they are used in each chapter
Contents
Introduction PART I: SEEING AND FEELING Chapter 1: Consciousness "The Light & the Room" "Response to Lee: Is Being Conscious Like Having the Lights Turned On?" Chapter 2: Seeing and Learning to See "What Kinds of Things Can We See?" "Response to Ransom: Patterns, Pines and Parsimony" Chapter 3: Perception and Hallucination "The Problem of Perception" "Response to Sethi: A Representationalist Solution to the Problem of Perception" Chapter 4: Emotion "Emotion and Analogy" "Response to Pendoley: Emotions Beyond Perception" Chapter 5: Episodic Memory "Remembering Your Past and Philosophy of Mind's Future" "Response to Robins: Propositional Content and Representational Format in Episodic Memory" PART II: THINKING AND ACTING Chapter 6: Agency "The Mental Life of Agents" "Response to Amaya: Agency and Control" Chapter 7: Thinking in and with your Environment "Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Extended, Enactive, and Affective" "Response to Corris: Ecological Reflections of 4EA Cognition and Perception" Chapter 8: Human Finitude and the Nature of Thought "Finite Thinkers" "Response to Sultanescu: To be a Thinker is to be Finite" Chapter 9: Inner Speech "What's that Little Voice in Your Head?" "Response to Patel: Real Voices or Represented Ones?" PART III: CHATBOTS AND REPLICANTS Chapter 10: Can Computers Communicate? "Talking Machines" "Response to Attah: Reverse Engineering Large Language Models" Chapter 11: Artificial General Intelligence "Rethinking Artificial General Intelligence" "Response to Baker: Genius, Child, or Fake? How to Achieve Artificial General Intelligence" Chapter 12: Brains as Computers "Is the Brain a Computer?" "Response to Favela: The Medium Dependence of Information Processing in the Brain" Chapter 13: AI Chatbot Therapists "AI Chatbot Therapists Don't Know You Any Better Than You Know Yourself" "Response to Tekin: My Therapist the Chatbot: Therapeutic Relationships and Therapeutic AI"PART IV: STUDYING NEURAL AND COGNITIVE KINDS Chapter 14: Mental Functions "What are Mental Capacities For?" "Response to Daoust: Function and Definition in the Mind Sciences" Chapter 15: Male and Female Brains "Are the "Female Brain" and "Male Brain" Natural Kinds?" "Response to Ward: Sexed Brains and Gendered Minds" Chapter 16: Empathy "The Science of Empathy and its Implications for How We Ought to Live" "Response to Betzler: I Feel You" Chapter 17: Animal Minds "Why is There So Much Disagreement about Animal Minds?" "Response to Boyle: What are We Disagreeing About?" PART V: HOW WE TALK ABOUT MINDS Chapter 18: Marks of the Mental "A Social Mark of the Mental" "Response to Curry: Minds Don't Depend on Our Models"Chapter 19: Neurodiversity "Non-Ideal Philosophy of Mind, Folk Psychology, and Neurodiversity" "Response to Fernández Castro & Núñez de Prado-Gordillo: Why Do We Pathologize Cognitive Differences?" Chapter 20: Building Minds Together "How to Build a Mind" "Response to Gomez-Lavin: How Should We Study Social Minds?" Glossary
