What is the mind? Is consciousness a process in the brain? How do our minds represent the world? Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings is a grand tour of writings on these and other perplexing questions about the nature of the mind. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, the book includes sixty-three selections that range from the classical contributions of Descartes to the leading edge of contemporary debates. Extensive sections cover foundational issues, the nature of consciousness, and the nature of mental content. Three of the selections are published here for the first time, while many other articles have been revised especially for this volume. Each section opens with an introduction by the editor. Philosophy of Mind is suitable for students at all levels and also for general readers.

This should prove a useful text for introductory and advanced undergraduate, and graduate courses in the philosophy of mind and related areas. The volume ranges from the classical contributions of Descartes to the leading edge of the discipline.

Preface

1. FOUNDATIONS

A. Dualism

1. Meditations on First Philosophy (II and VI), Rene Descartes

2. Passions of the Soul (Excerpt), Rene Descartes

3. On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata, and Its History (Excerpt), Thomas H. Huxley

4. An Unfortunate Dualist, Raymond M. Smullyan

B. Behaviorism

5. Descartes' Myth, Gilbert Ryle

6. Psychology in Physical Language (Excerpt), Rudolf Carnap

7. Brains and Behavior, Hilary Putnam

C. The Identity Theory

8. Is Consciousness a Brain Process?, U. T. Place

9. Sensations and Brain Processes, J. J. C. Smart

10. The "Mental" and the "Physical" (Excerpt), Herbert Feigl

D. Functionalism

11. The Nature of Mental States, Hilary Putnam

12. The Causal Theory of the Mind, D. M. Armstrong

13. Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications, David Lewis

14. Troubles with Functionalism (Excerpt), Ned Block

15. Pseudonormal Vision: An Actual Case of Qualia Inversion?, Martine Nida-Rumelin

E. Other Psychophysical Relations

16. Mechanism and Its Alternatives (Excerpt), C. D. Broad

17. Mental Events, Donald Davidson

18. Special Sciences (or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis), Jerry A. Fodor

19. Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction, Jaegwon Kim

20. From Supervenience to Superdupervenience: Meeting the Demands of a Material World (Excerpt), Terence Horgan

21. Finding the Mind in the Natural World, Frank Jackson

F. Mental Causation

22. The Many Problems of Mental Causation (Excerpt), Jaegwon Kim

23. Mental Causation, Stephen Yablo

2. CONSCIOUSNESS

A. General

24. Concepts of Consciousness, Ned Block

25. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?, Thomas Nagel

26. Quining Qualia, Daniel C. Dennett

27. Consciousness and Its Place in Nature, David J. Chalmers

B. The Knowledge Argument

28. Epiphenomenal Qualia, Frank Jackson

29. What Experience Teaches, David Lewis

30. Phenomenal States (Second Version), Brian Loar

31. Two Conceptions of the Physical, Daniel Stoljar

C. Modal Arguments

32. Naming and Necessity (Excerpt), Saul A. Kripke

33. Imaginability, Conceivability, Possibility and the Mind-Body Problem (Excerpt), Christopher S. Hill

34. Rigid Designators and Mind-Brain Identity (Excerpt), Grover Maxwell

D. The Explanatory Gap

35. Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap, Joseph Levine

36. The Rediscovery of Light, Paul M. Churchland

37. Conceptual Analysis, Dualism, and the Explanatory Gap, Ned Block and Robert Stalnaker

38. Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?, Colin McGinn

E. Higher-Order Thought and Representationalism

39. Explaining Consciousness, David M. Rosenthal

40. Conscious Experience, Fred Dretske

41. Sensation and the Content of Experience: A Distinction, Christopher Peacocke

42. Visual Qualia and Visual Content Revisited, Michael Tye

43. Introspection and Phenomenal Character, Sydney Shoemaker

3. CONTENT

A. The Nature of Intentionality

44. The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena (Excerpt), Franz Brentano

45. "Intentional Inexistence" (Excerpt), Roderick M. Chisholm

46. A Recipe for Thought, Fred Dretske

47. Biosemantics, Ruth Garrett Millikan

48. Reasoning and Representing, Robert Brandom

49. The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality, Terence Horgan and John Tienson

B. Propositional Attitudes

50. Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Excerpt), Wilfrid Sellars

51. Propositional Attitudes, Jerry A. Fodor

52. True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works, Daniel C. Dennett

53. Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes, Paul M. Churchland

C. Internalism and Externalism

54. The Meaning of "Meaning" (Excerpt), Hilary Putnam

55. Individualism and the Mental (Excerpt), Tyler Burge

56. The Components of Content (Revised Version), David J. Chalmers

57. Anti-Individualism and Privileged Access, Michael McKinsey

58. What an Anti-Individualist Knows A Priori, Anthony Brueckner

59. The Extended Mind, Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers

4. MISCELLANEOUS

60. Reductionism and Personal Identity, Derek Parfit

61. Freedom and Necessity, A. J. Ayer

62. Analogy, Bertrand Russell

63. Can Computers Think?, John R. Searle