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In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new edition incorporates the striking developments that have taken place in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence and notes their expanding relevance to philosophical issues. Churchland organizes and clarifies the new theoretical and experimental results of the natural sciences for a wider philosophical audience, observing that this research bears directly on questions concerning the basic elements of cognitive activity and their implementation in real physical systems. (How is it, he asks, that living creatures perform some cognitive tasks so swiftly and easily, where computers do them only badly or not at all?) Most significant for philosophy, Churchland asserts, is the support these results tend to give to the reductive and the eliminative versions of materialism. A Bradford Book.

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title	:	Matter and Consciousness : A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
author	:	Churchland, Paul M.
publisher	:	MIT Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0262530740
print isbn13	:	9780262530743
ebook isbn13	:	9780585311227
language	:	English
subject	Philosophy of mind, Intellect, Consciousness, Cognition, Artificial intelligence, Neurology.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	BF431.C47 1988eb
ddc	:	128/.2
subject	:	Philosophy of mind, Intellect, Consciousness, Cognition, Artificial intelligence, Neurology.

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Matter and Consciousness

A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind

Revised Edition

Paul M. Churchland

Page iv

Ninth printing, 1999

Revised edition, new material 1988 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Original edition 1984 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.

Book design by Mary Mendell.
Jacket design by Irene Elios.
Printed and bound in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Churchland, Paul M., 1942
Matter and consciousness: a contemporary introduction to the
philosophy of mind/Paul M. Churchland.Rev. ed.
"A Bradford book." p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-262-03135-3. ISBN 0-262-53074-0 (pbk.)
1. Intellect. 2. Consciousness. 3. Cognition. 4. Artificial
intelligence. 5. Neurology. I. Title.
BF431.C47 1988 128'.2dc 19 87-21899 CIP

Page v

For my father, who taught me how to fly, and my mother, who
taught me how to see.

Page vi

Contents

Preface to Revised Edition

Preface

Chapter 1
What Is This Book About?

Chapter 2
The Ontological Problem (the Mind-Body Problem)

1. Dualism

2. Philosophical Behaviorism

3. Reductive Materialism (the Identity Theory)

4. Functionalism

5. Eliminative Materialism

Chapter 3
The Semantical Problem

1. Definition by Inner Ostension

2. Philosophical Behaviorism

3. The Theoretical Network Thesis and Folk Psychology

4. Intentionality and the Propositional Attitudes

Chapter 4
The Epistemological Problem

1. The Problem of Other Minds

2. The Problem of Self-Consciousness

Chapter 5
The Methodological Problem

1. Idealism and Phenomenology

2. Methodological Behaviorism

3. The Cognitive/Computational Approach

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