The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

2. Mind and Matter

  1. The Takeover of the Mind
  2. Dualism And The Mind-Body
  3. Epiphenomenalism
  4. The World Of Ideas
  5. Supervenience
  6. Monism
  7. Idealism
  8. Neutral Monism
  9. Materialism
  10. Behaviorism
  11. The Age Of Materialism
  12. The Identity Theory
  13. The Irreducibility Problem
  14. Against Physicalism
  15. Anomalous Monism
  16. The Age Of Functionalism
  17. Computational Functionalism
  18. The Computational Theory of Mind
  19. Homunculi
  20. Eliminative Materialism
  21. Intentionality
  22. The Intentional Stance
  23. Intentionality as Representation
  24. Phenomenology
  25. Phenomenal Externalism
  26. Variants on Materialism
  27. Brains Cause Minds
  28. The Cognition-consciousness Problem
  29. Mind or Matter
  30. The Factory of Illusions

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Armstrong, David Malet: A MATERIALIST THEORY OF THE MIND (Humanities Press, 1968)

Armstrong, David Malet: THE NATURE OF MIND (Cornell Univ Press, 1981)

Armstrong, David Malet: THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM (Westview, 1999)

Bechtel William: PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1988)

Block, Ned: READINGS IN PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY (Harvard Univ Press, 1980)

Bonnet, Charles: ESSAI DE PSYCHOLOGIE (1754)

Brentano, Franz: PSYCHOLOGY FROM AN EMPIRICAL STANDPOINT (1874)

Broad, Charlie Dunbar: THE MIND AND ITS PLACE IN NATURE (1925)

Chalmers, David: THE CONSCIOUS MIND (Oxford University Press, 1996)

Chalmers, David: THE CHARACTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Chomsky, Noam: LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT (Moyer Bell, 1991)

Churchland, Paul: MATTER AND CONSCIOUSNESS (MIT Press, 1984)

Clark, Andy: SUPERSIZING THE MIND (Oxford University Press, 2008)

Crane, Tim: THE MECHANICAL MIND (Penguin, 1995)

Davidson, Donald: INQUIRIES INTO TRUTH AND INTERPRETATION (Clarendon Press, 1984)

Dennett, Daniel: CONTENT AND CONSCIOUSNESS (Routledge, 1969)

Dennett, Daniel: BRAINSTORMS (Bradford, 1978)

Dennett, Daniel: KINDS OF MINDS (Basic, 1998)

Descartes, Rene`: PRINCIPIA PHILOSOPHIAE (1644)

Dretske, Fred: KNOWLEDGE AND THE FLOW OF INFORMATION (MIT Press, 1981)

Dretske, Fred: EXPLAINING BEHAVIOR (MIT Press, 1988)

Dretske, Fred: NATURALIZING THE MIND (MIT Press, 1995)

Dretske, Fred: PERCEPTION, KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Eccles, John: EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN (Routledge, 1991)

Eccles, John & Popper, Karl: THE SELF AND ITS BRAIN (Springer, 1977)

Feigl, Herbert: THE MENTAL AND THE PHYSICAL (Univ of Minnesota Press, 1967)

Fodor, Jerry: LANGUAGE OF THOUGHT (Crowell, 1975)

Fodor, Jerry: REPRESENTATIONS (MIT Press, 1981)

Fodor, Jerry: MODULARITY OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1983)

Fodor, Jerry: THE ELM AND THE EXPERT (MIT Press, 1994)

Gardner, Howard: MIND'S NEW SCIENCE (Basic, 1985)

Gregory, Richard: OXFORD COMPANION TO THE MIND (Oxford, 1987)

Heidegger, Martin: BEING AND TIME (1962)

Honderich, Ted: ON CONSCIOUSNESS (Edinburgh University Press, 2004)

Hume, David: A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE (1739)

Husserl Edmund: LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS (1900)

Kim Jaegwon: SUPERVENIENCE AND MIND (Cambridge University Press, 1993)

Kim, Jaegwon: MIND IN A PHYSICAL WORLD (MIT Press, 1998)

Leibniz, Gottfried: THE MONADOLOGY (1714)

Lewis, David K.: PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS (Oxford Press, 1983)

Lewis, David K.: ON THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS (Basil Blackwell, 1986)

Lycan, William: CONSCIOUSNESS (MIT Press, 1987)

Lycan, William: MIND AND COGNITION (MIT Press, 1990)

Mach, Ernst: THE ANALYSIS OF SENSATIONS AND THE RELATION OF PHYSICAL TO THE PSYCHICAL (1886)

McGinn, Colin: CHARACTER OF MIND (Oxford Univ Press, 1997)

Minsky, Marvin: The Society of Mind (Simon & Schuster, 1988)

Popper, Karl & Eccles John: THE SELF AND ITS BRAIN (Springer-Verlag, 1977)

Popper, Karl: KNOWLEDGE AND THE BODY-MIND PROBLEM (Routledge, 1994)

Priest, Stephen: THEORIES OF THE MIND (Houghton Mifflin, 1991)

Putnam, Hilary: MIND, LANGUAGE AND REALITY (Cambridge Univ Press, 1975)

Quine, Willard: WORD AND OBJECT (1960)

Rosenthal, David: NATURE OF MIND (Oxford University Press, 1991)

Rucker, Rudy: INFINITY AND THE MIND (Birkhauser, 1982)

Russell, Bertrand: ANALYSIS OF MIND (1921)

Russell, Bertrand: ANALYSIS OF MATTER (Allen and Unwin, 1927)

Russell, Bertrand: AN INQUIRY INTO MEANING AND TRUTH (Penguin, 1962)

Ryle, Gilbert: THE CONCEPT OF MIND (Hutchinson, 1949)

Searle, John: THE REDISCOVERY OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1992)

Sterelny, Kim: THE REPRESENTATIONAL THEORY OF MIND (Blackwell, 1990)

Stich, Stephen: FROM FOLK PSYCHOLOGY TO COGNITIVE SCIENCE (MIT Press, 1983)

Stich, Stephen: DECONSTRUCTING THE MIND (Oxford Univ Press, 1996)

Whitehead, Alfred: THE CONCEPT OF NATURE (Cambridge Univ Press, 1920)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS (Macmillan, 1953)