Matter and Consciousness

Index

Index Acalculia, 276 Across-fiber pattern theory, 227–234 Action potential, 201–205 Agraphia, 223 Albert, M. L., 225 Alexia, 223 Algorithm, 174 Anderson, J. R., 152 Aphasia, 276 Argument from analogy, 113–115 Armstrong, D., 134 Autonomy human, 220 the methodology of psychology, 65–66, 70–72 Babbage, C., 158 Back-propagation, 244–253 Bartoshuk, L., 240 Beliefs. See Propositional attitudes Berkeley, G., 47–48, 136 Blindness denial, 223 Blind sight, 223 Block, N., xii, 68, 72 Boden, M., 152, 189 Brentano, F., 108 Brodmann’s areas, 208ff Brown, R. H., 189 Bruno, Giordano, 23 Bullock, T. H., 201, 220 Caloric fluid, 74–75 Cameron, A. G. W., 177 Cartesian dualism, 11ff Category errors, 46–48 Cerebellum, 199–200, 237–238 Cerebral hemispheres, 199–200, 208–212 Chalmers, D., vii, 58–61, 62 Chess, 174ff Chihara, C., 102 Chisholm, R., 108 Chomsky, N., 26, 146 Churchland, P. M., 62, 63, 73, 85, 102, 103, 108, 119, 134, 156, 189, 241, 259 284 Index Churchland, P. S., xii, 73, 134, 156, 189, 241, 259 Cognitive deficits, 221–225 Cognitive psychology, 147–152 Color, 229–231 Color-deprived Mary, 56–58 Combinatorial explosion, 175 Computers connectionist, 241–259 hardware, 160–163 history, 157–159 general purpose, 160–167 neural, 235–241 software, 163–167 Conceptual change. See Learning Consciousness, 111, 119–120 contemporary view of, 120–122, 131–133 expansion of, 278–282 simulation of, 185–186 traditional view of, 123–130 Content. See Propositional content Copernicus, N., 48, 75 Cortex, 206–216 association cortex, 216–217 motor cortex, 218, 213–215, 217–218 somatosensory cortex, 208–209, 217 visual cortex, 136–138, 210–213 CPU, 160–65, 204–205, 252–253 Darwin, C., 34–35 Dawkins, R., 201n Dendrites, 201–204, 235–239 Dennett, D., xii, 72, 85, 134, 146, 152, 189 Descartes, R., 12–15, 36 Descending control systems, 215 Desires. See Propositional attitudes Dewdney, A., 155 Drake, F., 277 Dreyfus, H., 142, 189 Dualism. See also Property dualism; Substance dualism arguments against, 18–21 arguments for, 13–18 Eccles, J., 36 Eliminative materialism, 73ff arguments against, 47–49, 82–84 arguments for, 77–82, 156, 258 ELIZA, 182–184 Emergent properties, 12–13 Enc, B., 73 Epiphenomenalism, 17–18 Evolution argument from, 33–35 of intelligence, 269–273 of nervous systems, 191–200 of order and life, 261–266 on other planets, 266–269 Explanation D-N model of, 94–97 dualistic vs. materialistic, 21–35 of human behavior, 97–99 Faces, sensory coding of, 232–233 Feigl, H., 34 Index 285 Feinberg, G., 277 Feyerabend, P. K., 62, 85 Field, H., 108 Fodor, J., 72, 102, 109 Folk psychology, 97–99, 73–76 criticisms of, 77–82 explanations within, 103–108, 93–99 laws of, 97–99, 105–108 semantics of, 97–108 Formal systems, 158–160 Functionalism arguments against, 66–72 arguments for, 63–66 Galen, 96 Galilieo, 14 Game tree, 170ff Gardner, H., 225 Generalized delta rule, 244–256 Gorman, P., 245 Gradient descent, 252ff Grinnell, A., 130, 142 Guzman, A., 115 Hardin, C. L., 241 Haugeland, J., 122 Hebb, D. A. O., 256 Hebbian learning, 256–258 Hecaen, H., 225 Hegel, G., 140 Hemi-neglect, 223 Hempel, C., 102 Hesse, M., 102 Heuristic procedures, 175–176 Hidden units, 241–243, 249–250 Hinton, G., 259 Hippocampus, 219–220 Hippocrates, 96 Holland, J., 122 Holyoak, K., 122 Hooker, C. A., x, 35 Hubel, D. H., 220 Husserl, E., 140–141 Hypotheses, explanatory, 116–119 Hypothetic-deductive (H-D) justification, 116–119 Identities, intertheoretic, 41ff historical examples of, 41–43 type/type vs. token/token, 65 Identity theory, 40ff arguments against, 45–62 arguments for, 43–45 Incorrigibility, 123–131 Intelligence of alien species, 261–277 definitions of, 269–272 distribution of, 261–277 simulations of, 167–189, 241–259 Intensional contexts, 50–51 Intentionality, 103–108. See also Propositional attitudes; Propositional content Introspection, 4–5, 21–25, 45–46, 49–52, 52–59, 119–131, 138–140, 278–282. See also Consciousness 286 Index Jackson, F., vii, 36, 56–58, 62 Johnson-Laird, P., 152 Jordan, L., xii Justification, of theories, 116–119 Kandel, E. R., 220 Kant, I., 137–138, 141 Kolb, B., 225 Language computer languages, 25–26, 157, 161–67 simulation of natural language, 182–189 Lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), 210–211, 215–216 Learning, 176–178, 244–253 Leibniz, G., 29, 157 Leibniz’ Law, 29ff...