Nature of Mental Things

Arthur W. Collins0268014647, 9780268014643

Table of contents :
Contents……Page 1
Preface……Page 3
1. Intuitive thoughts about the mental……Page 13
2. Privacy……Page 16
3. Mental phenomena not part of the physical order……Page 19
4. Innerness……Page 20
5. The contrast: pretheoretical notions and philosophical ideas……Page 25
6. Behaviorism……Page 28
7. Eliminative materialism……Page 30
8. Philosophical resistance to the idea of inner mental things……Page 31
1. Ascriptions and expressions of belief……Page 35
2. Some help from Austin……Page 41
3. Belief and knowledge compared……Page 44
4. Belief on p, and belief that p……Page 47
5. The role of the risk of being mistaken……Page 50
6. What is true of those who believe……Page 53
7. Conclusion……Page 55
1. Theories about belief and truth conditions for ascriptions……Page 57
2. A behavioristic pointing model……Page 60
3. A materialist pointing model……Page 65
1. Some reflections on dualism……Page 71
2. Identifying conscious phenomena……Page 74
3. Consciousness and inner states and processes……Page 76
4. Luminosity……Page 79
5. Luminosity in foundational epistemology……Page 81
6. The idea of the inner……Page 85
7. Luminosity and the physiological viewpoint……Page 87
8. The role of inner-conscious phenomena……Page 89
V. Visual Experiences and Theoretical Identification……Page 100
1. What do theoretical identifications try to identify?……Page 101
2. Visual experience and sensuous description……Page 102
3. Thomas Nagel on subjective phenomenology……Page 107
4. Kripke against mind-brain identity……Page 111
5. Whether there are any visual experiences……Page 127
VI. Action and Teleology……Page 132
1. The standard view of ends, ends-in-view, and causality……Page 133
2. Teleology and compensation……Page 135
3. Compensation and causality……Page 137
4. Teleology and behaviorism……Page 140
5. Theology and evolution……Page 145
6. Teleology and action……Page 147
7. Action as compensation……Page 150
8. Pro attitudes and causality……Page 156
1. Causality, positivism, and materialism: some recent history……Page 164
2. Intuitions contrary to causal interpretation……Page 168
3. The desire-belief model for explanation of action……Page 176
4. The impulse to salvage an inner state……Page 180
5. Betting and believing……Page 182
6. Conclusion: the subjectivity of belief……Page 186
Index of Names……Page 191