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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strawson, Galen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Representation and mind.
Subjects:
Consciousness.
Behaviorism (Psychology)
Mind and body.
Materialism.
Philosophy of mind.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A default position
  • Experience
  • The character of experience
  • Understanding-experience
  • A note about dispositional mental states
  • Purely experiential content
  • An account of four seconds of thought
  • Questions
  • The mental and the nonmental
  • The mental and the publicly observable
  • The mental and the behavioral
  • Neobehaviorism and reductionism
  • Naturalism in the philosophy of mind
  • Conclusion: The three questions
  • Agnostic materialism, part 1
  • Monism
  • The linguistic argument
  • Materialism and M&P monism
  • A comment on reduction
  • The impossibility of an "objective phenomenology"
  • Asymmetry and reduction
  • Equal-status monism
  • Panpsychism
  • The inescapability of metaphysics
  • Agnostic materialism, part 2
  • Ignorance
  • Sensory spaces
  • Experience, explanation, and theoretical integration
  • The hard part of the mind-body problem
  • Neutral monism and agnostic monism
  • A comment on eliminativism, instrumentalism, and so on
  • Mentalism, idealism, and immaterialism
  • Mentalism
  • Strict or pure process idealism
  • Active-principle idealism
  • Stuff idealism
  • Immaterialism
  • The positions restated
  • The dualist options
  • Frege's thesis
  • Objections to pure process idealism
  • The problem of mental dispositions
  • 'Mental'
  • Shared abilities?
  • The sorting ability
  • The definition of 'mental being'
  • Mental phenomena
  • The view that all mental phenomena are experiential phenomena
  • Natural intentionality
  • E/C intentionality
  • The experienceless
  • Intentionality and abstract and nonexistent objects
  • Experience, purely experiential content, and N/C intentionality
  • Concepts in nature
  • Intentionality and experience
  • Summary with problem
  • Pain and 'pain'
  • The neobehaviorist view
  • A linguistic argument for the necessary connection between pain and behavior
  • A challenge
  • The Sirians
  • N.N.'s novel
  • An objection to the Sirians
  • The Betelgeuzians
  • The point of the Sirians
  • Functionalism, naturalism, and realism about pain
  • Unpleasantness and qualitative character
  • The weather watchers
  • The rooting story
  • What is it like to be a weather watcher?
  • The aptitudes of mental states
  • The argument from the conditions for possessing the concept of space
  • The argument from the conditions for language ability
  • The argument from the nature of desire
  • Desire and affect
  • The argument from the phenomenology of desire
  • Behavior
  • A hopeless definition
  • Difficulties
  • Other-observability
  • Neo-neobehaviorism
  • The concept of mind.