Philosophy, Mind, and Cognitive Inquiry: Resources for Understanding Mental Processes

Cognitive Inquiry and the Philosophy of Mind.- Prologue: What is Mind?.- Current Issues in the Philosophy of Mind.- I: Computational Conceptions.- Machines and the Mental.- What's in a Mind?.- II: Connectionist Conceptions.- Connectionism, Eliminativism, and the Future of Folk Psychology.- On the Proper Treatment of Connectionism.- III: Representational Conceptions.- Semantics, Wisconsin Style.- Cognitive Science and the Problem of Semantic.- IV: Mentality and Intentionally.- The Primacy of the Intention.- Intentionality and Its Place in Nature.- V: Epistemology and Cognition.- Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized.- The Relation Between Epistemology and Psychology.- VI: The Mental and the Physical.- Two Versions of the Identity Theory.- A Bridge Between Cognitive Science and Neuroscience: The Functional Architecture of Mind.- Epilogue: Conflicting Conceptions.- Language and Mentality: Computational, Representational, and Dispositional Conceptions.- Selected Bibliography.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.