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Copyright Year:
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Philosophy of Mind

Classical and Contemporary Readings, Second Edition

David J. Chalmers

The best-selling and most comprehensive anthology of its kind.

Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Second Edition, is a grand tour of writings on the nature of the mind. This comprehensive collection has 79 selections that range from the classical contributions of Descartes and Avicenna to the leading edge of contemporary debates. Seven major sections cover foundational issues, consciousness, content, perception, self-knowledge and other minds, the self, and artificial intelligence. Each section opens with an introduction by the editor.

Readership : Undergraduate and graduate students in Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, and Philosophy of Psychology courses.

Reviews

  • "The volume is comprehensive and the selection of classic pieces - including contemporary, 20th century classics - is terrific. I am able to teach material in the order I prefer and I can be sure to find the appropriate reading in this anthology. The Chalmers volume lends itself to tailoring the course syllabus to the needs of the instructor. Moreover, it is the only anthology that I don't have to supplement with handouts or a reading packet, and that is very attractive."
    --Joe Cruz, Williams College

  • "The book is clearly a high quality book, and the selections in it have clearly been thoughtfully selected and organized. It has excellent breadth - perhaps the best breadth of any of the anthologies on the market that I am familiar with."
    --Amy Kind, Claremont McKenna College

  • "I think this is the best anthology on the market. It's very comprehensive, while at the same time not being too bulky."
    --Michelle Montague, University of Bristol


  • "It is in my view the best anthology available on core topics in Mind."
    --Bill Brewer, University of Warwick

Part I: FOUNDATIONS
A. Dualism.
1. Meditations on First Philosophy (II and VI)., René Descartes
2. Passions of the Soul (Excerpt)., René Descartes
3. Correspondence, Princess Elisabeth & René Descartes
4. The Akan Concept of a Person, Kwame Gyekye
5. On the Soul: The Floating Man (Excerpt), Avicenna
6. On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and Its History (Excerpt), Thomas Huxley
7. An Unfortunate Dualist, Raymond M. Smullyan
B. Behaviorism
8. Descartes' Myth., Gilbert Ryle.
9. The Logical Analysis of Psychology, Carl G. Hempel
10. Brains and Behavior., Hilary Putnam
C. The identity theory and functionalism
11. Sensations And Brain Processes., J.J.C. Smart.
12. The Nature of Mental States., Hilary Putnam.
13. The Causal Theory of the Mind, David M. Armstrong
14. Mad Pain and Martian Pain, David Lewis
15. Troubles with Functionalism (Excerpt), Ned Block
16. Pseudonormal Vision: An Actual Case of Qualia Inversion', Martine Nida-Rümelin
D. Other Psychophysical Relations
17. Mental Events, Donald Davidson
18. Special Sciences., Jerry A. Fodor
19. Finding the Mind in the Natural World, Frank Jackson
20. The Many Problems of Mental Causation (Excerpt), Jaegwon Kim
21. Emergentisms, Ancient and Modern (Excerpt), Jonardon Ganeri
22. Post-Physicalism, Barbara Montero
II. CONSCIOUSNESS
A. General
23. Concepts of consciousness, Ned Block
24. What Is It Like To Be A Bat?, Thomas Nagel
25. Quining Qualia, Daniel C Dennett
26. Explaining Consciousness, David Rosenthal
27. Visual Qualia and Visual Content Revisited, Michael Tye
28. Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness, Keith Frankish
B. Consciousness and materialism
29. Consciousness and its Place in Nature, David J. Chalmers
30. Epiphenomenal Qualia, Frank Jackson
31. What Experience Teaches, David Lewis
32. Naming and necessity (Excerpt), Saul A. Kripke
33. Acquaintance and the Mind-Body problem., Katalin Balog
34. Is Matter Conscious?, Hedda Hassel Mørch
III. CONTENT
A. The Nature of Intentionality
35. Mental and Physical Phenomena (Excerpt), Franz Brentano
36. "Intentional Inexistence", Roderick M. Chisholm
37. A Recipe for Thought, Fred Dretske
38. Of Sensory Systems and the "Aboutness" of Mental States., Kathleen Akins
39. Biosemantics, Ruth Millikan
40. Inferentialism and Some of its Challenges, Robert M. Brandom
41. The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality Terence Horgan & John M. Tienson
B. Propositional Attitudes
42. Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Excerpt), Wilfrid Sellars
43. Propositional Attitudes, Jerry A. Fodor
44. True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works, Daniel C. Dennett
45. Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes, Paul M. Churchland
46. Alief and Belief, Jamar Gendler
C. Internalism, externalism, and embodiment
47. The Meaning Of "Meaning" (Excerpt), Hilary Putnam
48. Individualism And The Mental (Excerpt), Tyler Burge
49. The Extended Mind, Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers
50. Overextending the Mind?, Brie Gertler
51. The Embodied Mind, Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi
PART IV. PERCEPTION
52. The Argument From Illusion (Excerpt), A.J. Ayer
53. Sense and Sensibilia (Excerpt), J.L. Austin
54. The "Sensation" as a Unit of Experience, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
55. The Intentionality of Sensation: A Grammatical Feature., G. E. M. Anscombe
56. The Limits of Self-Awareness (Excerpt), M.G.F. Martin
57. Is The Visual World A Grand Illusion?, Alva Noë
58. Which Properties Are Represented In Perception?, Susanna Siegel
PART V. SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND OTHER MINDS
59. How Do You Know You're Not a Zombie?, Fred Dretske
60. Introspection (excerpts), Alex Byrne
61. The Unreliability of Naive Introspection, Eric Schwitzgebel
62. What You Can't Expect When You're Expecting., L.A. Paul
63. Analogy, Bertrand Russell
64. Intuitions About Consciousness: Experimental Studies, Joshua Knobe and Jesse Prinz
65. On Being an Octopus, Peter Godfrey-Smith
PART VI: THE SELF
66. The Sense of the Self, Galen Strawson
67. Non-Self: Empty Persons (Excerpt), Mark Siderits
68. I am John's Brain, Andy Clark
69. The Brain and Its Self, Patricia S. Churchland
70. Reductionism and Personal Identity, Derek Parfit
71. Learning to Be Me, Greg Egan
72. Feminism in Philosophy of Mind: The Question of Personal Identity, Susan James
73. Talking Identity, Kwame Anthony Appiah
PART VII. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
74. They're Made of Meat, Terry Bisson
75. Computing Machinery And Intelligence (Excerpt), Alan Turing.
76. Minds, Brains, and Programs., John R. Searle
77. The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis (Excerpt), David J. Chalmers
78. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky
79. How Philosophy of Mind Can Shape the Future., Susan Schneider and Pete Mandik

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David Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU. He is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University and co-director of the PhilPapers Foundation. He is the author of The Conscious Mind (OUP 1997), Metametaphysics (OUP 2009), The Character of Consciousness (OUP 2010), and Constructing the World (OUP 2012).

Making Sense - Margot Northey
Mind - John R. Searle
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction - Susan Blackmore
Philosophy of Mind - Ian Ravenscroft

Special Features

  • Includes both classical articles that make up much of the standard history of the field, and contemporary articles that represent the leading edge of contemporary debates.
  • The author introduces each of the major sections, giving relevant background for the material in those sections, and giving pointers for further reading.
  • Unparelled representation of the diversity and vibracy of the field.
New to this Edition
  • New sections on perception, epistemology of mind, the self, and artificial intelligence.
  • Coverage of a wider range of philosophical traditions, with articles drawn from African philosophy, Indian philosophy, and Islamic philosophy, as well as from more recent traditions in experimental philosophy, feminist philosophy, and phenomenology