Table of Contents

Preface
1. FOUNDATIONS
A. Dualism
1: René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (II and VI)
2: René Descartes: Passions of the Soul (Excerpt)
3: Thomas H. Huxley: On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata, and Its History (Excerpt)
4: Raymond M. Smullyan: An Unfortunate Dualist
B. Behaviorism
5: Gilbert Ryle: Descartes' Myth
6: Rudolf Carnap: Psychology in Physical Language (Excerpt)
7: Hilary Putnam: Brains and Behavior
C. The Identity Theory
8: U. T. Place: Is Consciousness a Brain Process?
9: J. J. C. Smart: Sensations and Brain Processes
10: Herbert Feigl: The "Mental" and the "Physical" (Excerpt)
D. Functionalism
11: Hilary Putnam: The Nature of Mental States
12: D. M. Armstrong: The Causal Theory of the Mind
13: David Lewis: Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications
14: Ned Block: Troubles with Functionalism (Excerpt)
15: Martine Nida-Rümelin: Pseudonormal Vision: An Actual Case of Qualia Inversion?
E. Other Psychophysical Relations
16: C. D. Broad: Mechanism and Its Alternatives (Excerpt)
17: Donald Davidson: Mental Events
18: Jerry A. Fodor: Special Sciences (or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis)
19: Jaegwon Kim: Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction
20: Terence Horgan: From Supervenience to Superdupervenience: Meeting the Demands of a Material World (Excerpt)
21: Frank Jackson: Finding the Mind in the Natural World
F. Mental Causation
22: Jaegwon Kim: The Many Problems of Mental Causation (Excerpt)
23: Stephen Yablo: Mental Causation
2. CONSCIOUSNESS
A. General
24: Ned Block: Concepts of Consciousness
25: Thomas Nagel: What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
26: Daniel C. Dennett: Quining Qualia
27: David J. Chalmers: Consciousness and Its Place in Nature
B. The Knowledge Argument
28: Frank Jackson: Epiphenomenal Qualia
29: David Lewis: What Experience Teaches
30: Brian Loar: Phenomenal States (Second Version)
31: Daniel Stoljar: Two Conceptions of the Physical
C. Modal Arguments
32: Saul A. Kripke: Naming and Necessity (Excerpt)
33: Christopher S. Hill: Imaginability, Conceivability, Possibility and the Mind-Body Problem (Excerpt)
34: Grover Maxwell: Rigid Designators and Mind-Brain Identity (Excerpt)
D. The Explanatory Gap
35: Joseph Levine: Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap
36: Paul M. Churchland: The Rediscovery of Light
37: Ned Block and Robert Stalnaker: Conceptual Analysis, Dualism, and the Explanatory Gap
38: Colin McGinn: Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?
E. Higher-Order Thought and Representationalism
39: David M. Rosenthal: Explaining Consciousness
40: Fred Dretske: Conscious Experience
41: Christopher Peacocke: Sensation and the Content of Experience: A Distinction
42: Michael Tye: Visual Qualia and Visual Content Revisited
43: Sydney Shoemaker: Introspection and Phenomenal Character
3. CONTENT
A. The Nature of Intentionality
44: Franz Brentano: The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena (Excerpt)
45: Roderick M. Chisholm: "Intentional Inexistence" (Excerpt)
46: Fred Dretske: A Recipe for Thought
47: Ruth Garrett Millikan: Biosemantics
48: Robert Brandom: Reasoning and Representing
49: Terence Horgan and John Tienson: The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality
B. Propositional Attitudes
50: Wilfrid Sellars: Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Excerpt)
51: Jerry A. Fodor: Propositional Attitudes
52: Daniel C. Dennett: True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works
53: Paul M. Churchland: Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes
C. Internalism and Externalism
54: Hilary Putnam: The Meaning of "Meaning" (Excerpt)
55: Tyler Burge: Individualism and the Mental (Excerpt)
56: David J. Chalmers: The Components of Content (Revised Version)
57: Michael McKinsey: Anti-Individualism and Privileged Access
58: Anthony Brueckner: What an Anti-Individualist Knows A Priori
59: Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers: The Extended Mind
4. MISCELLANEOUS
60: Derek Parfit: Reductionism and Personal Identity
61: A. J. Ayer: Freedom and Necessity
62: Bertrand Russell: Analogy
63: John R. Searle: Can Computers Think?

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"By far the best selection of readings in the field. The hard-to-find are represented (Huxley) as well as the often neglected (Hill, Yablo). This is the best of all possible anthologies in the philosophy of mind."--Don A. Merrell, Arkansas State University
"An excellent volume of essays organized in a way that captures the issues that are most important to contemporary researchers in the field."--Casey O'Callaghan, University of California, Santa Cruz