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1 online resource (318 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Naturalism; Naturalism and the Philosophy of Mind; Overview; Pretheoretical Doctrines and Accompanying Terminology; The Plausibility of the Doctrine of Naturalism; The Nature of Science; Science and Reality; The Price of Rejecting Naturalism; Naturalism and the Rest of This Book; Further Readings; Chapter 2: The Mind-Body Problem; Dualism; Behaviorism; Identity Theory; Functionalism; Eliminative Materialism; Conclusion; Further Readings; Chapter 3: Theories of Mental Content; Dennett's ""Intentional Stance"" |
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Naturalistic Theories of ContentResemblance; Covariance; First Objection; Second Objection; Teleology; Conceptual Role Semantics and Holism; Interpersonal Understanding; False Beliefs and Reference; Concept Similarity and Identity; The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction; Internalism Versus Externalism; Conclusion; The Resemblance Theory; The Covariance Theory; The Telelogical Theory; Conceptual Role Semantics; Further Readings; Chapter 4: Mental Causation; The Plausibility of the Doctrine of Mental Causation; Illustrations of MC; Example 1 (Mental-Physical Causation): Action |
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Example 2 (Physical-Mental Causation): Sensation and PerceptionExample 3 (Mental-Mental Causation): Belief Acquisition; Related Doctrines; Responsibility; Objectivity; The Problem of Mental Causation; Dualism and the Skeptical Thesis; Physicalism and the Skeptical Thesis; Type Physicalism, Causal Laws, and the Skeptical Thesis; Token Physicalism, Causal Laws, and the Skeptical Thesis; The Argument from the Naturalistic Principle of Causal Relevance; The Argument from the Principle of Causal-Explanatory Exclusion; Conclusion; Further Readings; Chapter 5: Self-Knowledge and Other Minds, I |
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Introduction to a Philosophical ProblemAn Assumption About Self-Knowledge; An Assumption Concerning Knowledge of Other Minds; On the Notion of ""Knowing a Mental State""; Knowledge of Mental States; Theories Modeled on the Primacy of Self-Knowledge: The Cartesian Approach; Motivation; A Cartesian Model for Knowledge of One's Own Ideas; The Cartesian Approach to Knowledge of Other Minds; Virtues of the Cartesian Account; Some Objections to the Cartesian Approach; Conclusion; Further Reading; Chapter 6: Self-Knowledge and Other Minds, II |
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Theories Modeled on the Primacy of Other Minds: The Behaviorist ApproachMotivation; A Behaviorist Model for Knowledge of Other Minds; The Behaviorist Approach to Self-Knowledge; Virtues of the Behaviorist Approach; Some Objections to the Behaviorist Conception of Self-Knowledge; Conclusion; A Nonbehavioristic Alternative: The Avowal Theory; Motivation; The Avowal Theory: A New Theory of First-Person Authority; Implications: The Avowal Theory of ""Self-Knowledge""; One Further Issue: The Fact of Coherence; Conclusion; Some Final Remarks: Self-Knowledge and Other Minds; Further Readings |
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Chapter 7: Consciousness |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Pessin, Andrew
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| ISBN |
9781315703954 |
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1315703955 |
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