ABSTRACT

In the preceding five chapters, we have worked our way through a variety ofdistinct approaches to the mind. Each of these approaches was originallydeveloped in response to a particular range of puzzles. Descartes, for instance, was struck by the apparent difference between properties of material objects and mental properties. He responded by arguing that the mental and the material are utterly different kinds of substance. Behaviorists, in contrast, were bent on making minds scientifically respectable subjects of empirical inquiry. On their view, this required showing that truths about minds and their contents could be paraphrased in terms of observable bodily motions and propensities to such motions.