Neither brain nor ghost : a nondualist alternative to the mind-brain identity theory /
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| Author / Creator: | Rockwell, W. Teed. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005. |
| Description: | xxii, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5720448 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Minds, Brains, and Behavior
- Functionalism
- Eliminative Materialism
- Some Cartesian Materialist Presuppositions
- Ryle's Dispositional Psychology
- A Rylean Alternative to Functionalist Cartesian Materialism
- 2. Beyond the Cranium
- 3. Beyond the Neuronal Mind
- The James-Cannon Debate
- New Data on the Relationship between the Body and Emotions/Sensations
- Is Causation Different from Embodiment?
- 4. Causation and Embodiment
- Mill's Criticism of Atomistic Causality
- The Lure of Atomistic Causality
- Mill's Criticism (and the Modern Defense) of Intrinsic Causal Powers
- 5. The Myth of the Autonomous Mind-Brain
- Supervenience, Causation, and Embodiment
- 6. Experience, Sense Data, and Language: Putting Experience Back into the Environment
- Language and Thought as Biological and Functional Categories
- Subjective Experience and the Environment
- Minds, Worlds, and Reality
- 7. The Return of the Zombies
- Why Physiological Zombies Have Scientific Significance
- Functional and Behavioral Zombies
- The Roots of the Problem
- Zombies, Experience, and Skepticism
- 8. The "Frame Problem" and the "Background"
- Searle versus Dewey
- Searle's Intrinsicality Argument
- Searle's Darwinian Argument
- Dennett's Darwinian Argument: Genes versus Memes
- Dreyfus, Clark, and Conscious Experience
- 9. Dreams, Illusions, and Errors
- Cartesian Materialism and the Empiricists
- The Pragmatist Alternative
- Bridge Laws versus New Wave Reductionism
- The Pragmatic Answer to Eliminative Skepticism
- Connectionist Support for Pragmatism
- 10. Dewey and the Dynamic Alternative
- The Traditional View of Neural Nets
- A Brief Introduction to DST
- Thelen and Smith on Infant Locomotor Development
- Freeman and the Attractor Landscape of the Olfactory Brain
- How Animals Move
- Dynamic Systems as Behavioral Fields
- Notes
- References
- Index
