Teach Yourself Philosophy of Mind
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From Plato's cave to Dennett's emergent systems, Teach Yourself Philosophy of Mind explores more than two millennia of thought on the knottiest of all philosophical questions. What is the mind? Is it a function of language, a neuropsychological artifact, or a metaphysical essence? Will machines ever be conscious? Is free will just an illusion? Beginning with the pre-Socratics and moving up through the latest in cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, this book explores major thinking on consciousness, memory, creativity, and other major concepts in the philosophy of mind.Mel Thompson is a freelance writer and editor, specializing in Philosophy, Religion and Ethics.
Introduction101From the Greeks to the sixteenth century5An immortal soul?7Making us what we are10Later Greek thought14The soul and its fate1702Dualism and its alternatives19Dualism20Materialism and behaviourism28Idealism36The Ghost in the Machine38Supervenience44A new approach4703Cognitive science48Psychology51Language and innate knowledge52Neuroscience56Evolutionary psychology58Functionalism62Artificial intelligence65The Chinese Room75Intentionality7804Mind and the theory of knowledge83To know is to remember84Mind and certainty85We see it our way88Innateness89The phenomenological fallacy91Pragmatism and Gestalt9305Personal identity and memory96Social and role identity100Memory103Worrying106Zombies10806Knowledge of other minds111The structuralist approach113Brains114Ways of knowing115Are we alone?119Knowing me121Are you in my world?12207Free will and action124Freedom and physical causality125The experience of freedom131Actions, intentions and beliefs13308Consciousness135Conscious brains?139Disembodied consciousness142An existentialist view14509The creative mind148Too narrow a view?149Religion and metaphysics152The creative arts155A Buddhist perspective156And sometimes I just sit...158Glossary160Taking it further162Further reading162Websites163Index165
