Introduction of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind

... partisan, in the sense of espousing an exclusive approach to questions about the mind in general – An introduction to the philosophy of mind3 4is debatable whether, whenever one event causes another,there ... stimulationContentsPrefacepagexi 1Introduction1 Empiricalpsychologyandphilosophicalanalysis2Metaphysicsandthephilosophyofmind3Abriefguidetotherestofthisbook62Minds,bodiesandpeople8Cartesiandualism9Theconceivabilityargument11Thedivisibilityargument13Non-Cartesiandualism15Arepersonssimplesubstances?18Conceptualobjectionstodualisticinteraction21Empiricalobjectionstodualisticinteraction24Thecausalclosureargument26Objectionstothecausalclosureargument29Otherargumentsforandagainstphysicalism32Conclusions363Mentalstates39Propositionalattitudestates40Behaviourismanditsproblems41Functionalism44Functionalismandpsychophysicalidentitytheories48Theproblemofconsciousness51Qualiaandtheinvertedspectrumargument53Somepossibleresponsestotheinvertedspectrumargument55Theabsentqualiaargumentandtwonotionsofconsciousness59Eliminativematerialismand‘folkpsychology’61Someresponsestoeliminativematerialism64Conclusions66viiMinds, ... philosophical analysis of the concept of seeing: but each will have more credibility to the extent that it is consistent with the other.METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The philosophy of mind is not...

... philosophical analysis of the concept of seeing: but each will have more credibility to the extent that it is consistent with the other.METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The philosophy of mind is not ... broadsense to embrace any kind of sensation, perception orthought. This agreed, we can say that the philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of subjects of experience – whatthey are, how they can ... point of these remarks is to emphasise there cannotbe progress either in the philosophy of mind or in empiricalpsychology if metaphysics is ignored or abandoned. The methods and findings of empirical...

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... experience the tang of lemon, the whiff of woodsmoke, the colour of ripe tomatoes, or the sting of anettle. And the issue raised here by the absent qualia argu-ment is whether the existence of such ... states of consciousness to other human beings, so that to deny consciousness to the hypothetical pile of pebbles in the circumstances envisagedwould be to succumb to narrow-minded prejudice, of the ... friends of functionalismmay want to respond to this argument, other than byresorting to an outright denial of the existence of ‘qualia’altogether.8Some may contend that the hypothesis of spec-trum...

... relative to one another – things such as the colourand shape of the tree and of the house, the interveningground between them, the sky behind them, and otherobjects in their vicinity (together ... to divide one’s attention in away which seems to be psychologically impossible. From the point of view of the causal theory, then, it is easy enough to An introduction to the philosophy of mind1 48understand ... properly belongs to a philosophical analysis of the concept of perception and what properly belongs to an empir-ical theory of perception of the sort that is more appropri-ately advanced and evaluated...

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