Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings / Edition 1

by David J. Chalmers

Overview

Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Second Edition, is a grand tour of writings on the nature of the mind. This comprehensive collection has 79 selections that range from the classical contributions of Descartes and Avicenna to the leading edge of contemporary debates. Seven major sections cover foundational issues, consciousness, content, perception, self-knowledge and other minds, the self, and artificial intelligence. Each section opens with an introduction by the editor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195145816
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/25/2002
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	688
Product dimensions:	9.92(w) x 7.06(h) x 1.26(d)

About the Author

David Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU. He is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University and co-director of the PhilPapers Foundation. He is the author of The Conscious Mind (OUP 1997), Metametaphysics (OUP 2009), The Character of Consciousness (OUP 2010), and Constructing the World (OUP 2012).

Table of Contents

Part I: FOUNDATIONS

A. Dualism.

1. Meditations on First Philosophy (II and VI).
René Descartes

2. Passions of the Soul (Excerpt).
René Descartes

3. Correspondence
Princess Elisabeth & René Descartes

4. The Akan Concept of a Person
Kwame Gyekye

5. On the Soul: The Floating Man (Excerpt)
Avicenna

6. On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and Its History (Excerpt)
Thomas Huxley

7. An Unfortunate Dualist.
Raymond M. Smullyan


B. Behaviorism

8. Descartes' Myth.
Gilbert Ryle.

9. The Logical Analysis of Psychology
Carl G. Hempel

10. Brains and Behavior.
Hilary Putnam


C. The identity theory and functionalism

11. Sensations And Brain Processes.
J.J.C. Smart.


12. The Nature of Mental States.
Hilary Putnam.

13. The Causal Theory of the Mind
David M. Armstrong

14. Mad Pain and Martian Pain
David Lewis

15. Troubles with Functionalism (Excerpt)
Ned Block

16. Pseudonormal Vision: An Actual Case of Qualia Inversion'
Martine Nida-Rümelin


D. Other Psychophysical Relations

17. Mental Events
Donald Davidson

18. Special Sciences.
Jerry A. Fodor

19. Finding the Mind in the Natural World
Frank Jackson

20. The Many Problems of Mental Causation (Excerpt)
Jaegwon Kim

21. Emergentisms, Ancient and Modern (Excerpt)
Jonardon Ganeri

22. Post-Physicalism
Barbara Montero


II. CONSCIOUSNESS

A. General

23. Concepts of consciousness
Ned Block


24. What Is It Like To Be A Bat?
Thomas Nagel

25. Quining Qualia
Daniel C Dennett

26. Explaining Consciousness
David Rosenthal

27. Visual Qualia and Visual Content Revisited
Michael Tye

28. Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness
Keith Frankish


B. Consciousness and materialism

29. Consciousness and its Place in Nature
David J. Chalmers

30. Epiphenomenal Qualia
Frank Jackson

31. What Experience Teaches
David Lewis

32. Naming and necessity (Excerpt)
Saul A. Kripke

33. Acquaintance and the Mind-Body problem.
Katalin Balog

34. Is Matter Conscious?
Hedda Hassel Mørch


III. CONTENT

A. The Nature of Intentionality

35. Mental and Physical Phenomena (Excerpt)
Franz Brentano

36. “Intentional Inexistence”
Roderick M. Chisholm

37. A Recipe for Thought
Fred Dretske

38. Of Sensory Systems and the "Aboutness" of Mental States.
Kathleen Akins

39. Biosemantics
Ruth Millikan

40. Inferentialism and Some of its Challenges
Robert M. Brandom

41. The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality Terence Horgan & John M. Tienson


B. Propositional Attitudes

42. Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Excerpt)
Wilfrid Sellars

43. Propositional Attitudes
Jerry A. Fodor

44. True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works
Daniel C. Dennett

45. Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes.
Paul M. Churchland

46. Alief and Belief
Tamar Gendler


C. Internalism, externalism, and embodiment

47. The Meaning Of "Meaning" (Excerpt)
Hilary Putnam

48. Individualism And The Mental (Excerpt)
Tyler Burge

49. The Extended Mind
Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers

50. Overextending the Mind?
Brie Gertler

51. The Embodied Mind
Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi


PART IV. PERCEPTION

52. The Argument From Illusion (Excerpt)
A.J. Ayer

53. Sense and Sensibilia (Excerpt)
J.L. Austin

54. The “Sensation” as a Unit of Experience
Maurice Merleau-Ponty

55. The Intentionality of Sensation: A Grammatical Feature.
G. E. M. Anscombe

56. The Limits of Self-Awareness (Excerpt)
M.G.F. Martin

57. Is The Visual World A Grand Illusion?
Alva Noë

58. Which Properties Are Represented In Perception?
Susanna Siegel


PART V. SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND OTHER MINDS

59. How Do You Know You're Not a Zombie?
Fred Dretske

60. Introspection (excerpts)
Alex Byrne

61. The Unreliability of Naive Introspection
Eric Schwitzgebel

62. What You Can't Expect When You're Expecting.
L.A. Paul


63. Analogy
Bertrand Russell

64. Intuitions About Consciousness: Experimental Studies
Joshua Knobe and Jesse Prinz

65. On Being an Octopus
Peter Godfrey-Smith


PART VI: THE SELF

66. The Sense of the Self
Galen Strawson

67. Non-Self: Empty Persons (Excerpt)
Mark Siderits

68. I am John's Brain
Andy Clark

69. The Brain and Its Self
Patricia S. Churchland

70. Reductionism and Personal Identity
Derek Parfit

71. Learning to Be Me
Greg Egan

72. Feminism in Philosophy of Mind: The Question of Personal Identity
Susan James

73. Talking Identity
Kwame Anthony Appiah


PART VII. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

74. They're Made of Meat
Terry Bisson

75. Computing Machinery And Intelligence (Excerpt)
Alan Turing.

76. Minds, Brains, and Programs.
John R. Searle

77. The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis (Excerpt)
David J. Chalmers

78. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky

79. How Philosophy of Mind Can Shape the Future.
Susan Schneider and Pete Mandik

Editorial Reviews

"The volume is comprehensive and the selection of classic pieces - including contemporary, 20th century classics - is terrific. I am able to teach material in the order I prefer and I can be sure to find the appropriate reading in this anthology. The Chalmers volume lends itself to tailoring the course syllabus to the needs of the instructor. Moreover, it is the only anthology that I don't have to supplement with handouts or a reading packet, and that is very attractive."
Joe Cruz, Williams College

"The book is clearly a high quality book, and the selections in it have clearly been thoughtfully selected and organized. It has excellent breadth - perhaps the best breadth of any of the anthologies on the market that I am familiar with."
Amy Kind, Claremont McKenna College

"I think this is the best anthology on the market. It's very comprehensive, while at the same time not being too bulky."
-Michelle Montague, University of Bristol

"It is in my view the best anthology available on core topics in Mind."
Bill Brewer, University of Warwick

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