Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind
Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers) and Jonathan Cohen(UC,
San Diego), editors
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Jonathan Cohen
1 Mental Content
Is there a viable notion of narrow mental content?
- Yes:
1. Cognitive Content and Propositional Attitude Attributions
Gabriel Segal
- No:
2. There is No Viable Notion of Narrow Content
Sarah Sawyer
Is externalism about mental content compatible with privileged
access?
- Yes:
3. Externalism and Privileged Access are Consistent
Anthony Brueckner
- No:
4. Externalism and Privileged Access are Inconsistent
Michael McKinsey
Is the intentional essentially normative?
- No:
5. Psychology Isn't Normative
Georges Rey
- Yes:
6. Normativism Defended
Ralph Wedgwood
Is there is non-conceptual content?
- Yes, but...:
7. Revenge of the Given
Jerry Fodor
- Yes, and...:
8. Are There Different Kinds of Content?
Richard Heck
2 Physicalism
Is non-reductive materialism viable?
- Yes:
9. Everybody Has Got It: A Defense of Non-Reductive Materialism
Louise Antony
- No:
10. The Evolving Fortunes of Eliminative Materialism
Paul Churchland
Should physicalists be a priori physicalists?
- Yes:
11. A Priori Physicalism
Frank Jackson
- No:
12. On the Limits of A Priori Physicalism
Brian McLaughlin
Is there an unresolved problem of mental causation?
- Yes:
13. Causation and Mental Causation
Jaegwon Kim
- No:
14. Mental Causation, Or Something Near Enough
Barry Loewer
3 The Place of Consciousness in Nature
Is consciousness ontologically emergent from the physical?
- Yes:
15. Dualist Emergentism
Martine Nida-Rümelin
- No:
16. Against Ontologically Emergent Consciousness
David Braddon-Mitchell
Are phenomenal characters and intentional contents of experiences
identical?
- Yes:
17. New Troubles for the Qualia Freak
Michael Tye
- No:
18. A Case for Qualia
Sydney Shoemaker
Is awareness of our mental acts a kind of perceptual consciousness?
- Yes:
19. All Consciousness is Perceptual
Jesse Prinz
- No:
20. Mental Action and Self-Awareness (I)
Christopher Peacocke
Index