Neither brain nor ghost : a nondualist alternative to the mind-brain identity theory /

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Author / Creator:Rockwell, W. Teed.
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
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ISBN:0262182475 (alk. paper)
Notes:"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-226) and index.
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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