Matter and Consciousness

Contents

Contents Preface to the 2013 Edition vii Preface to the 1988 Edition ix Preface to the 1984 Edition xi 1 What Is This Book About? 1 2 The Ontological Problem (the Mind–Body Problem) 11 1 Dualism 11 2 Philosophical Behaviorism 36 3 Reductive Materialism (the Identity Theory) 40 4 Functionalism 63 5 Eliminative Materialism 73 3 The Semantical Problem 87 1 Definition by Inner Ostension 87 2 Philosophical Behaviorism 91 3 The Theoretical Network Thesis and Folk Psychology 93 4 Intentionality and the Propositional Attitudes 103 4 The Epistemological Problem 111 1 The Problem of Other Minds 111 2 The Problem of Self-Consciousness 119 vi Contents 5 The Methodological Problem 135 1 Idealism and Phenomenology 135 2 Methodological Behaviorism 142 3 The Cognitive/Computational Approach 147 4 Methodological Materialism 153 6 Artificial Intelligence 157 1 Computers: Some Elementary Concepts 160 2 Programming Intelligence: The Piecemeal Approach 167 7 Neuroscience 191 1 Neuroanatomy: The Evolutionary Background 191 2 Neurophysiology and Neural Organization 201 3 Neuropsychology 221 4 Cognitive Neurobiology 226 5 AI Again: Computer Models of Parallel Distributed Processing 241 8 Expanding Our Perspective 261 1 The Distribution of Intelligence in the Universe 261 2 The Expansion of Introspective Consciousness 278 Index 283 ...