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Tables of Contents for Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Part 1: Foundations
1
204
Naturalism and teleology
3
27
Basics
3
2
Spencer and Dewey
5
4
Outline of the book
9
2
Thought and act
11
3
Two concepts of function
14
7
Teleconomic and instrumental views of cognition
21
3
A simple concept of complexity
24
6
Externalism and internalism
30
36
Some basic explanatory forms
30
1
A fast tour
31
6
Internalism
37
5
The larger landscape
42
3
Contesting the explanandum
45
3
The location of the internal/external divide
48
2
Problems of adjudication
50
7
C-externalist explanations
57
2
Cognition as organic complexity
59
7
Spencer's version
66
34
Spencer's place
66
3
Life and mind
69
3
Continuities
72
4
Homeostasis and cognition
76
3
Spencer's explanatory program
79
7
Direct/indirect; instructive/selective
86
4
James' interests
90
10
Dewey's version
100
31
Meetings and departures
100
2
Dewey on life
102
2
Dewey on continuity
104
2
Indeterminacy and complexity
106
2
Past and Present
108
5
Selection and the pattern of inquiry
113
3
Pragmatism and reliabilism
116
5
A simulation
121
3
A summary of progress made so far
124
7
On construction
131
35
Asymmetric externalism
131
4
Two lines of dissent
135
6
Biological constructivism
141
4
Varieties of Construction
145
3
What environments contain
148
3
Other views
151
2
The status of complexity
153
4
Construction and realism
157
4
Constructivist philosophies of science
161
5
The question of correspondence
166
39
The division
166
2
Some false dichotomies
168
3
A fuel for success
171
4
Explaining representation
175
3
Success-linked theories
178
6
Millikan's maps
184
3
A stock-take
187
1
A flurry over fitness
188
4
Significance of the two trends
192
3
Summary of Part I
195
10
Part II Models
205
86
Adaptive plasticity
207
25
The question
207
1
Biological background to the basic model
208
1
The basic model
209
5
The inducible defense case, part I
214
2
The precarious and stable, revisited
216
1
Comparison to a Bayesian model of experimentation
217
3
Another model using regularity and change
220
1
Extensions of the Basic model: geometric means
221
3
Variation within and between trials
224
8
The signal detection model
232
23
The next question
232
1
Signal detection and the inducible defense case
232
5
Optimal cues and acceptable cues
237
1
The costs of plasticity
238
6
Paying for perception
244
3
On reliability
247
8
Complex individuals, complex populations
255
36
Another kind of complexity
255
1
Polymorphism
256
2
Individual homeostasis
258
4
Homeostasis and the population
262
2
Levene's theme
264
4
The rhythm method
268
3
Levins' machinery
271
6
The coarse and the fine
277
1
A counter-example
278
3
The group-selectionist structure of Levins' model
281
3
Quasi-homeostasis
284
2
Summary of Part II
286
5
References
291
18
Index
309