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possible for us tohave knowledge of ourselves and others as sub-
jects of experience existing both in space and through time:
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Prefacepagexi
1Introduction1
Empiricalpsychologyandphilosophicalanalysis2
Metaphysicsandthephilosophyofmind3
Abriefguidetotherestofthisbook6
2Minds,bodiesandpeople8
Cartesiandualism9
Theconceivabilityargument11
Thedivisibilityargument13
Non-Cartesiandualism15
Arepersonssimplesubstances?18
Conceptualobjectionstodualisticinteraction21
Empiricalobjectionstodualisticinteraction24
Thecausalclosureargument26
Objectionstothecausalclosureargument29
Otherargumentsforandagainstphysicalism32
Conclusions36
3Mentalstates39
Propositionalattitudestates40
Behaviourismanditsproblems41
Functionalism44
Functionalismandpsychophysicalidentitytheories48
Theproblemofconsciousness51
Qualiaandtheinvertedspectrumargument53
Somepossibleresponsestotheinvertedspectrumargument55
Theabsentqualiaargumentandtwonotionsofconsciousness59
Eliminativematerialismand‘folkpsychology’61
Someresponsestoeliminativematerialism64
Conclusions66
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... feel,
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matter, the philosophy ofmind is the philosophical study of
minded things just insofar as they are minded. The things
in question...
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possible for us tohave knowledge of ourselves and others ... philosophy of mind
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EMPIRICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ... mental and physical states.
Then, in chapters 3 and 4, I move on to discuss certain gen-
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... introduction to the philosophy of mind9 8
say this, however, because it is just as true to say that the
presence of that kind of silhouette normally causes a monkey
to make that type of call as it is to ... vervet monkeys to alert
other monkeys to the presence of various kinds of predator.
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One type of call appears to represent the presence of eagles,
another the presence of snakes, and yet another ... entities, and constitute the
contents of beliefs and other so-called propositional attitude
Mental content 97
certain type of call in the presence of eagles andto respond
to that type of call...
... letter-types or letter-tokens, because
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ically involved in generating experiences of that type. Thus,
as well as enjoying visual experiences, we enjoy auditory,
gustatory, olfactory and haptic ... content to perceptual experiences – and why should we
suppose that they have such content? We have already discus-
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