ABSTRACT

A welcome introduction to one of the most intellectually demanding areas of the undergraduate philosophy curriculum. The authors provide a clear framework within which students can fit contemporary developments in the Anglo-American tradition which provide the core themes of philosophy of mind and which connect to their other work in epistemology and philosophy of language.

chapter 1|23 pages

The Cartesian legacy

chapter 2|28 pages

Reductionism and the road to functionalism

chapter 3|23 pages

Computational models of mind

chapter 4|22 pages

The content of thought

chapter 5|22 pages

Anti-reductionist alternatives

chapter 6|22 pages

The content of experience

chapter 7|22 pages

Subjects of experience

chapter 8|27 pages

The embodied subject