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Readings in Philosophy of Psychology. Volume I, Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, Volume I / ed. by Ned Block.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Language and Thought Series ; 1Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1980Edition: Reprint 2014Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674594593
  • 9780674594623
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150/.1
LOC classification:
  • BF38
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction What Is Philosophy of Psychology? -- Part One. Behaviorism -- Introduction: Behaviorism -- 1. The Logical Analysis of Psychology -- 2. Brains and Behavior -- 3. Selections from Science and Human Behavior -- 4. A Review of B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior -- Part Two. Reductionism and Physicalism -- Materialism without Reductionism: What Physicalism Does Not Entail -- 5. Mental Events -- 6. Special Sciences, or The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis -- 7. Philosophy and Our Mental Life -- 8. Excerpt from “Identity and Necessity” -- 9. Identity, Necessity, and Events -- 10. Anomalous Monism and Kripke's Cartesian Intuitions -- 11. What Is It Like to Be a Bat? -- Part Three. Functionalism -- Introduction: What Is Functionalism? -- Functional Analysis -- 12. Functional Analysis -- Functional Specification -- 13. The Nature of Mind -- 14. Armstrong on the Mind -- 15. Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications -- 16. Mad Pain and Martian Pain -- Functional State Identity Theory -- 17. The Nature of Mental States -- 18. Review of Putnam -- 19. Physicalism and the Multiple Readability of Mental States -- 20. What Psychological States Are Not -- 21. Functionalism and Qualia -- 22. Troubles with Functionalism -- Index
Summary: In this introduction to the philosophical problems underlying the modern study of mind and behavior, Ned Block has collected the most important papers by the major figures in the field. He provides the only central reference work now available for scholars and students in this growing area of inquiry. Volume I covers general approaches to the study of the mind: behaviorism, reductionism, and functionalism.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction What Is Philosophy of Psychology? -- Part One. Behaviorism -- Introduction: Behaviorism -- 1. The Logical Analysis of Psychology -- 2. Brains and Behavior -- 3. Selections from Science and Human Behavior -- 4. A Review of B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior -- Part Two. Reductionism and Physicalism -- Materialism without Reductionism: What Physicalism Does Not Entail -- 5. Mental Events -- 6. Special Sciences, or The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis -- 7. Philosophy and Our Mental Life -- 8. Excerpt from “Identity and Necessity” -- 9. Identity, Necessity, and Events -- 10. Anomalous Monism and Kripke's Cartesian Intuitions -- 11. What Is It Like to Be a Bat? -- Part Three. Functionalism -- Introduction: What Is Functionalism? -- Functional Analysis -- 12. Functional Analysis -- Functional Specification -- 13. The Nature of Mind -- 14. Armstrong on the Mind -- 15. Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications -- 16. Mad Pain and Martian Pain -- Functional State Identity Theory -- 17. The Nature of Mental States -- 18. Review of Putnam -- 19. Physicalism and the Multiple Readability of Mental States -- 20. What Psychological States Are Not -- 21. Functionalism and Qualia -- 22. Troubles with Functionalism -- Index

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In this introduction to the philosophical problems underlying the modern study of mind and behavior, Ned Block has collected the most important papers by the major figures in the field. He provides the only central reference work now available for scholars and students in this growing area of inquiry. Volume I covers general approaches to the study of the mind: behaviorism, reductionism, and functionalism.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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