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	Apr 1992
	ISBN 0262521679
	449 pp.
	25 illus.

The Philosophy of Mind

Brian Beakley and Peter Ludlow

Bringing together the best classical and contemporary writings in the philosophy of mind and organized by topic, this anthology allows readers to follow the development of thinking in five broad problem areas -- the mind/body problem, mental causation, associationism/connectionism, mental imagery, and innate ideas -- over 2500 years of philosophy. The writings range from Plato and Descartes to Fodor and the PDP research group, showing how many of the current concerns in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science are firmly rooted in history. The editors have provided helpful introductions to each of the main sections.

Brian Beakley is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Eastern Illinois University. Peter Ludlow is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at SUNY, Stony Brook.

Table of Contents

		Preface
		Sources and Acknowledgments
I		The Mind/Body Problem
		Introduction
1		From Metaphysics, book 7, and On the Soul, book 2 by Aristotle
2		Of Sense by Thomas Hobbes
3		From Meditations II and VI and from Reply to Objections II by René Descartes
4		From The Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley
5		Of the Laws of Mind by John Stuart Mill
6		Descartes' Myth by Gilbert Ryle
7		Is Consciousness a Brain Process? by U. T. Place
8		From "Identity and Necessity" by Saul Kripke
9		From Language and Problems of Knowledge by Noam Chomsky
10		The Nature of Mental States by Hilary Putnam
11		Reductionism and Antireductionism in Functionalist Theories of Mind by Patricia Churchland
12		Troubles with Functionalism by Ned Block
13		Philosophy and Our Mental Life by Hilary Putnam
II		Mental Causation
		Introduction
14		From The Phaedo by Plato
15		From Passions of the Soul by René Descartes
16		From ''The Union of Soul and Body" by Nicolas Malebranche
17		The Nature and Communication of Substances by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
18		The Third Antinomy by Immanuel Kant
19		On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata by Thomas Henry Huxley
20		Mental Events by Donald Davidson
21		Making Mind Matter More by Jerry A. Fodor
III		Mental Imagery
		Introduction
22		That the Soul Never Thinks without an Image by Thomas Aquinas
23		Of Imagination by Thomas Hobbes
24		From Meditation VI and from Objection IV and Reply by René Descartes
25		Of the Ideas of the Memory and Imagination by David Hume
26		Imagination by William James
27		The Modern Psychology of Thinking by Oswald Külpe
28		Image in Behavior by John Watson
29		"The Theory of Special Status Pictures" and "Imagining" by Gilbert Ryle
30		The Nature of Images and the Introspective Trap by Daniel Dennett
31		Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects by Roger Shepard and Jacqueline Metzler
32		Scanning Visual Mental Images: The First Phase of the Debate by Stephen Kosslyn
33		Tacit Knowledge and "Mental Scanning" by Zenon W. Pylyshyn
34		Demand Characteristics?: The Second Phase of the Debate by Stephen Kosslyn
IV		Associationism/Connectionism
		Introduction
35		Of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations by Thomas Hobbes
36		Of the Association of Ideas by John Locke
37		Of the Connection or Association of Ideas by David Hume
38		The Principal Investigations of Psychology Characterised by John Stuart Mill
39		The Elementary Law of Association by William James
40		The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing by James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart and Geoffrey E. Hinton
41		Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis by Jerry A. Fodor and Zenon W. Pylyshyn
42		The Constituent Structure of Connectionist Mental States: A Reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn by Paul Smolensky
43		One AI or Many? by Seymour Papert
V		Innate Ideas
		Introduction
44		From The Meno by Plato
45		From ''Comments on a Certain Broadsheet" by René Descartes
46		No Innate Principles in the Mind by John Locke
47		The Psychogenesis of Knowledge and Its Epistemological Significance by Jean Piaget
48		How There Could Be a Private Language and What It Must Be Like by Jerry A. Fodor
49		On Cognitive Structures and Their Development: A Reply to Piaget by Noam Chomsky
50		What Is Innate and Why: Comments on the Debate by Hilary Putnam
51		Discussion of Putnam's Comments by Noam Chomsky
52		Reply to Putnam by Jerry A. Fodor
		Index

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