The mundane matter of the mental language /
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| Author / Creator: | Maloney, J. Christopher |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. |
| Description: | xxvii, 274 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/995745 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. The Mental Language
- 1. Mentalistic constructs
- 2. The Representational Theory of the Mind
- 3. Folk psychology and Representationalism
- 4. Sententialism
- 5. The regress of embedded agents
- 6. Notation and content
- Part II. The Frame Problem and Scripts
- 7. Combinatorial explosion
- 8. The range and context of scripts
- 9. Modular cognitive systems
- Part III. Intelligence, Rationality and Behavior
- 10. Intelligent behavior and brute reaction
- 11. Rationality and behavior
- 12. Causal waywardness
- 13. Empirical tests of rationality
- Part IV. Along the Cognitive Spectrum
- 14. The scope of Sententialism
- 15. From infant to adult
- 16. Doxastic holism and Mentalese ambiguity
- Part V. The Matter of Intentionality
- 17. Searle's argument against Artificial Intelligence
- 18. Artificial Intelligence at bay
- 19. Language comprehension and translation
- 20. Fragmented agents
- 21. Cognitive psychology as a formal theory
- 22. The mundane matter of mind
- Part VI. Fixing the Content of Mental Sentences
- 23. Empiricism and mental representations
- 24. A causal explanation of sensuous representation
- 25. Objections and replies
- 26. Sensory doppelgSngers
- 27. Up from sensation
- 28. Meaning and definition
- Part VII. The Quality of Consciousness
- 28. Functional accounts of consciousness
- 29. Could qualia be non-psychological?
- 30. Sententialism and consciousness
- 31. Sensation and qualia
- 32. Moods
- 33. The subjectivity of consciousness
- 34. What it is like to be different
- 35. Artificial consciousness
- References
- Index