Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind showcases the leading contributors to the field, debating the major questions in philosophy of mind today. Comprises 20 newly commissioned essays on hotly debated issues in the philosophy of mind Written by a cast of leading experts in their fields, essays take opposing views on 10 central contemporary debates A thorough introduction provides a comprehensive background to the issues explored Organized into three sections which explore the ontology of the mental, nature of the mental content, and the nature of consciousness

Notes on Contributors ix Introduction Jonathan Cohen xii PART I MENTAL CONTENT 1 Is There a Viable Notion of Narrow Mental Content? 3 1 Cognitive Content and Propositional Attitude Attributions Gabriel Segal 5 2 There Is No Viable Notion of Narrow Content Sarah Sawyer 20 Is Externalism about Mental Content Compatible with Privileged Access? 35 3 Externalism and Privileged Access Are Consistent Anthony Brueckner 37 4 Externalism and Privileged Access Are Inconsistent Michael McKinsey 53 Is the Intentional Essentially Normative? 67 5 Resisting Normativism in Psychology Georges Rey 69 6 Normativism Defended Ralph Wedgwood 85 Is There Non-Conceptual Content? 103 7 The Revenge of the Given Jerry Fodor 105 8 Are There Different Kinds of Content? Richard G. Heck Jr 117 PART II PHYSICALISM 139 Is Non-Reductive Materialism Viable? 141 9 Everybody Has Got It: A Defense of Non-Reductive Materialism Louise Antony 143 10 The Evolving Fortunes of Eliminative Materialism Paul M. Churchland 160 Should Physicalists Be A Priori Physicalists? 183 11 A Priori Physicalism Frank Jackson 185 12 On the Limits of A Priori Physicalism Brian P. McLaughlin 200 Is There an Unresolved Problem of Mental Causation? 225 13 Causation and Mental Causation Jaegwon Kim 227 14 Mental Causation, or Something Near Enough Barry Loewer 243 PART III THE PLACE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN NATURE 265 Is Consciousness Ontologically Emergent from the Physical? 267 15 Dualist Emergentism Martine Nida-Rümelin 269 16 Against Ontologically Emergent Consciousness David Braddon-Mitchell 287 Are Phenomenal Characters and Intentional Contents of Experiences Identical? 301 17 New Troubles for the Qualia Freak Michael Tye 303 18 A Case for Qualia Sydney Shoemaker 319 Is Awareness of Our Mental Acts a Kind of Perceptual Consciousness? 333 19 All Consciousness Is Perceptual Jesse Prinz 335 20 Mental Action and Self-Awareness (I) Christopher Peacocke 358 Index 377