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Mental reality / Galen Strawson.
- Title
- Mental reality / Galen Strawson.
- Author
- Strawson, Galen
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
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- Description
- xx, 373 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Representation and mind
- Uniform Title
- Representation and mind
- Subject
- Note
- "A Bradford book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- A default position -- Experience -- The character of experience -- Understanding-experience -- A note about dispositional mental states -- Purely experiential content -- An account of four seconds of thought -- Questions -- The mental and the nonmental -- The mental and the publicly observable -- The mental and the behavioral -- Neobehaviorism and reductionism -- Naturalism in the philosophy of mind -- Conclusion: The three questions -- Agnostic materialism, part 1 -- Monism -- The linguistic argument -- Materialism and M&P monism -- A comment on reduction -- The impossibility of an "objective phenomenology" -- Asymmetry and reduction -- Equal-status monism -- Panpsychism -- The inescapability of metaphysics -- Agnostic materialism, part 2 -- Ignorance -- Sensory spaces -- Experience, explanation, and theoretical integration -- The hard part of the mind-body problem -- Neutral monism and agnostic monism -- A comment on eliminativism, instrumentalism, and so on --^
- Mentalism, idealism, and immaterialism -- Mentalism -- Strict or pure process idealism -- Active-principle idealism -- Stuff idealism -- Immaterialism -- The positions restated -- The dualist options -- Frege's thesis -- Objections to pure process idealism -- The problem of mental dispositions -- 'Mental' -- Shared abilities? -- The sorting ability -- The definition of 'mental being' -- Mental phenomena -- The view that all mental phenomena are experiential phenomena -- Natural intentionality -- E/C intentionality -- The experienceless -- Intentionality and abstract and nonexistent objects -- Experience, purely experiential content, and N/C intentionality -- Concepts in nature -- Intentionality and experience -- Summary with problem -- Pain and 'pain' -- The neobehaviorist view -- A linguistic argument for the necessary connection between pain and behavior -- A challenge -- The Sirians -- N.N.'s novel -- An objection to the Sirians -- The Betelgeuzians -- The point of the Sirians --^
- Functionalism, naturalism, and realism about pain -- Unpleasantness and qualitative character -- The weather watchers -- The rooting story -- What is it like to be a weather watcher? -- The aptitudes of mental states -- The argument from the conditions for possessing the concept of space -- The argument from the conditions for language ability -- The argument from the nature of desire -- Desire and affect -- The argument from the phenomenology of desire -- Behavior -- A hopeless definition -- Difficulties -- Other-observability -- Neo-neobehaviorism -- The concept of mind.
- ISBN
- 9780262513104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0262513102 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009011301
- OCLC
- 316736943
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library