Philosophy of Mind: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives - Third Edition

ISBN-13: 9781554814008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 752 str.

Peter A. Morton; Myrto Mylopoulos

Spis treści

• 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