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100 1 _aRavenscroft, Ian.
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245 1 0 _aPhilosophy of mind :
_ba beginner's guide /
_cIan Ravenscroft.
260 _aOxford ;
_aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2005.
300 _aix, 206 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-203) and index.
505 0 _aPart I: What are mental states? -- Dualism -- Substance dualism -- Arguments in favor of substance of substance dualism -- Arguments against substance dualism -- Property dualism -- Assessing epiphenomenalism -- Behaviorism -- Philosophical behaviorism -- Arguments in favor of philosophical behaviorism -- Arguments against philosophical behaviorism -- What is methodological behaviorism? -- Arguments for methodological behaviorism -- Arguments against methodological behaviorism -- The identity theory -- More about the identity theory -- Arguments in favor of the identity theory -- Evidence from deficit studies -- Arguments against the identity theory -- Reductive and nonreductive physicalism -- Functionalism -- Introducing functionalism - Functionalism and brain states -- Functionalism and the six features of mental states -- Two famous arguments against functionalism -- Eliminativism and fictionalism -- From theory to reality -- Introducing eliminativism -- Eliminativism about mental states -- Anti-eliminativist arguments -- Fictionalism -- Part II: Mind as machine -- The computational theory of mind -- Syntax and semantics -- What's a computer? -- Turing machines -- The computational theory of mind -- The language of thought -- The Chinese room -- Connectionism -- What connectionist networks are like -- Some important properties of connectionist networks -- Connectionism and the mind -- Rationality, language, systematicity -- Part III: Mind in a physical world -- Physicalism and supervenience -- Physical properties -- Introducing the supervenience approach to physicalism -- Refining the supervenience approach to physicalism -- A problem for the supervenience approach to physicalism? -- Content -- The resemblance theory -- The causal theory -- The teleological theory -- Fodor's theory -- Functional role theory -- Wide or narrow? -- Mental causation -- The problem of causal exclusion -- Responding to the problem of causal exclusion -- The causal efficacy of content -- Responding to the problem of the causal efficacy of content -- Part IV: Consciousness -- Varieties of consciousness -- Phenomenal consciousness -- Access consciousness -- Is access a function of phenomenal consciousness? -- Avoiding confusion -- Other kinds of consciousness -- Phenomenal consciousness -- The knowledge argument -- Responding to the knowledge argument -- The explanatory gap -- Can the explanatory gap be filled? -- Functionalism and phenomenal consciousness.
650 0 _aPhilosophy of mind.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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