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This book introduces students to the principal issues in the philosophy of mind by tracing the history of the subject from Plato and Aristotle through to the present day. Over forty primary source readings are included. Extensive commentaries from the editors are provided to guide student readers through the arguments and jargon and to offer necessary historical context for the readings. The new third edition examines some of the most exciting recent developments in the field, including advances in theories about the mind's relation to action and agency. Previous editions of this book, published under the title A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, have been praised and widely taught for more than two decades.
Contents
Preface to the Third 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's Dualism
René Descartes: Selections from Discourse on the Method
Antoine Arnauld: Objections to Descartes's Meditations
René Descartes: Reply to Antoine Arnauld
René Descartes: Selections from Principles of Philosophy
René Descartes and Elizabeth, Princess of Bohemia: Correspondence
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. Can Machines Be Persons?
Alan Turing: 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence'
John R. Searle: 'Minds, Brains and Programs'
Margaret A. Boden: 'Escaping from the Chinese Room'
Eric Schwitzgebel and Mara Garza: 'A Defense of the Rights of Artificial Intelligences'
11. Consciousness and 'What It Is Like'
Thomas Nagel: 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?'
Frank Jackson: 'Epiphenomenal Qualia'
Daniel C. Dennett: 'Quining Qualia'
David Rosenthal: 'How to Think About Mental Qualities' (excerpt)
Kathleen A. Akins: 'A Bat Without Qualities'
12. What Is Consciousness For?
Ned Block: 'On a Confusion About a Function of Consciousness'
David J. Chalmers: 'Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness' and selection from The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Theory of Conscious Experience
Valerie Gray Hardcastle: 'The Why of Consciousness: A Non-Issue for Materialists'
Michael A. Cohen and Daniel C. Dennett: 'Consciousness Cannot Be Separated from Function'
13. What Is an Action?
Donald Davidson: 'Actions, Reasons, and Causes'
Harry G. Frankfurt: 'The Problem of Action'
Elisabeth Pacherie: 'Can Conscious Agency Be Saved?'
14. When Do Agents Act?
J. David Velleman: 'What Happens When Someone Acts?'
Harry G. Frankfurt: 'Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person'
Jennifer Hornsby, 'Agency and Actions'
Markus E. Schlosser: 'Agency, Ownership, and the Standard Theory'
Tim Bayne: 'The Sense of Agency'
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Index
