ABSTRACT
In the eleven preceding chapters, you have been subjected to a number of diverse perspectives on the mind. Each of these perspectives originally crystallized in response to puzzles seen at the time to be especially challenging. Descartes, for instance, was struck by apparent dierences between properties of minds and properties of material objects. at focus led him to regard mental properties and the material properties as properties of utterly dierent kinds of substance. Psychological behaviorists, in contrast, were bent on making minds scientically respectable subjects of empirical inquiry. Given their conception of scientic respectability, this meant showing that truths about minds and their contents ought to be replaced by descriptions of observable bodily motions and propensities for such motions.
