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Tables of Contents for The Presence of Mind
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
xi
Acknowledgements
xiii
Introduction
1
181
The Background History of the Debate
1
4
The Structure and Argument of the Book
5
4
Nothing in Mind
Introduction
9
1
The Meta-Argument of Eliminativism
10
9
Theory-Theory
11
1
Causal Explanatory Commitments
11
1
Methodological Considerations
12
1
Theories and Conceptual Schemes
13
2
Minimal Coherentism
15
2
Major Conceptual Revolutions
17
2
Changing Our Minds
19
8
Connectionism: The Champion of Eliminativism
19
1
The Information Processing Debate
20
1
Representationalism and Expansive Classical Cognitivism
21
2
Why Mentalese Representations?
23
2
Propositional Attitude Psychology and the Language of Thought
25
2
The Connectionist Threat
27
2
Assessing the Connectionist Threat
28
1
Conclusion
29
2
A Lack of Content
Introduction
31
1
The Problem of Causal Impotence
31
11
The Tension between Externalism and Strong Supervenience
34
2
Why Commonsense Psychology is Externalist
36
1
Two Factor Theories
37
2
Narrow Content
39
2
All Roads Lead to Externalism
41
1
The Problem of Content
42
7
Causal Theories of Content
42
4
Asymmetric Dependency Theory
46
3
The Rejection of Causal Theories
49
1
The Information-Theoretic Approach
49
10
Informational Content
50
4
Teleofunctional Representation
54
2
The Property-Specific Character of Digital Information
56
2
The Indeterminacy Problem
58
1
Conclusion
59
2
Black Dots and Red Herrings
Introduction
61
1
Biosemantics: The Natural Choice
62
8
Etiological versus Propensity Accounts of Selection
63
2
The Reproducible Character of Biological Devices
65
2
Biosemantics and Intentionality
67
3
Defending High Church Biosemantics
70
17
The Intensional Indeterminacy Argument
70
2
The Capacity Argument
72
4
The Reply from on High
76
2
A Modest Proposal
78
8
Conclusion
86
1
Seeing Without Believing
Introduction
87
1
Nonconceptual Content Introduced
87
16
The Virtues of Nonconceptual Content
89
4
The Role of Nonconceptual Content in Conceptual Development
93
1
Non-Objective Thought, Generality and Connectionism
94
7
The Need for Correctness Conditions
101
2
The Failure of Eliminativist Plan A
103
9
Structuring Causes and Biosemantic Explanations
105
3
Domestic Anthropology and the Limits of Propositional Ascription
108
2
Connectionist Processing and Situated Robotics
110
2
Conclusion
112
1
Interpreting Minds
Introduction
113
1
Intensionality Introduced
113
11
The Intensionality Test
114
1
The Essentially Social Nature of Interpretation
115
4
The Very Idea of Asocial Triangulation
119
3
The Origin of Conceptual Perspectives
122
2
The Internal Structure of Propositions
124
5
Context Invariant Symbols and External Props
124
2
Syntactic Structure and Radical Interpretation
126
2
Theories of Truth and Theories of Meaning
128
1
Normativity and Propositional Ascription
129
9
Two Principles of Charity
129
4
The Further Need for the Principle of Correspondence
133
3
Irreducible Norms
136
2
Conclusion
138
1
Davidson's Identity Crisis
Introduction
139
1
What Motivates Causalism?
140
6
The Neo-Wittgensteinian Orthodoxy
141
1
The Primary Reason Problem
141
2
Why Causalism doesn't Solve the Primary Reason Problem
143
3
The Mysterious Connection Problem and Anomalous Monism
146
14
The Token Identity Theory
147
2
Clarifying Davidson's Understanding of Supervenience
149
2
The Epiphenomenal Objection
151
2
Davidson's Replies
153
1
The Weak Extension Reply
154
4
The Strong Extension Reply
158
2
The Mysterious Connection Reconsidered
160
3
Agency and Non-Humean Causation
161
2
Conclusion
163
2
The Poisoned Chalice
Introduction
165
1
Eliminativism: Plan B
165
3
Churchland's Coherentist Argument
166
2
Assessing the `Lack of Coherence' Charge
168
4
Why Minds Matter
169
3
The Eliminativist Burden
172
9
What Brains Can't Do
172
3
The Training of Connectionist Networks
175
1
The Nonconceptualist Reply
176
3
Minding Our Language
179
2
Conclusion
181
1
Notes
182
13
References
195
28
Index
223