Research Catalog

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

• Consciousness
• Behaviorism (Psychology)
• Mind and body
• Materialism
• Philosophy of mind

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