(P/B) CONTENT AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Παρουσίαση

Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. In this formative work, Dennett sought to develop a theory of the human mind and consciousness based on new and challenging advances in the field that came to be known as cognitive science. This important and illuminating work is widely-regarded as the book from which all of Dennett's future ideas developed. It is his first explosive rebuttal of Cartesian dualism and one of the founding texts of philosophy of mind. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Part 1: The Language of the Mind
I. The Ontological Problem of the Mind
1. The Mind and Science 2. Existence and Identity
II. Intentionality
3. The Problem of Intentionality 4. Two Blind Alleys 5. The Way Out
III. Evolution of the Brain
6. The Intelligent Use of Information 7. The Evolution of Appropriate Structures 8. Goal-directed Behaviour
IV. The Ascription of Content
9. Function and Content 10. Language and Content 11. Personal and Sub-Personal Levels and Explanation: Pain
Part 2: Consciousness
V. Introspective Certainty
12. The Certainty of Certain Utterances 13. A Perceiving Machine
VI. Awareness and Consciousness
14. The Ordinary Words 15. Awareness and Control 16. Consciousness
VII. Mental Imagery 17. The Name of Images and the Introspective Trap 18. Colours
VIII Thinking and Reasoning
19. People and Processes 20. Reasons and Causes
IX. Actions and Intentions
21. Intentional Actions 22. Willing 23. The Importance of Intentional Actions
X. Language and Understanding
24. Knowing and Understanding 25. Language and Information 26. Conclusions