Table of Contents

Introduction. What Is Philosophy of Psychology? Ned Block Part One: Behaviorism Introduction: Behaviorism Harris Savin 1. The Logical Analysis of Psychology Carl G. Hempel 2. Brains and Behavior Hilary Putnam 3. Selections from Science and Human Behavior B. F. Skinner 4. A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior Noam Chomsky Part Two: Reductionism and Physicalism Materialism without Reductionism: What Physicalism Does Not Entail Richard Boyd 5. Mental Events Donald Davidson 6. Special Sciences, or The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis Jerry A. Fodor 7. Philosophy and Our Mental Life Hilary Putnam 8. Excerpt from "Identity and Necessity" Saul A. Kripke 9. Identity, Necessity, and Events Fred Feldman 10. Anomalous Monism and Kripke's Cartesian Intuitions Cohn McGinn 11. What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Thomas Nagel Part Three: Functionalism Introduction: What Is Functionalism? Ned Block Functional Analysis 12. Functional Analysis Robert Cummins Functional Specification 13. The Nature of Mind D. M. Armstrong 14. Armstrong on the Mind Thomas Nagel 15. Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications David Lewis 16. Mad Pain and Martian Pain David Lewis Functional State Identity Theory 17. The Nature of Mental States Hilary Putnam 18. Review of Putnam David Lewis 19. Physicalism and the Multiple Realizability of Mental States Jaegwon Kim 20. What Psychological States Are Not Ned Block and Jerry A. Fodor 21. Functionalism and Qualia Sydney Shoemaker 22. Troubles with Functionalism Ned Block Index

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A splendid collection. The papers assembled in Block's anthology will prove to be of lasting value to anyone wishing to engage the philosophical dimension of cognitive science. -- Daniel Osherson

About the Author

Ned Block is Professor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Reviews

Block's anthology is sure to become a standard reference for philosophy of psychology; the papers [have]...already fixed the general direction of this field for the next several years. Cognitive psychology cannot but profit from the interest that this anthology is sure to generate among philosophers. Contemporary Psychology