Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, Volume I

by Ned Block (Editor)

Overview

In this introduction to the philosophical problems underlying the modern study of mind and behavior, Ned Block has collected the most important papers by the major figures in the field. He provides the only central reference work now available for scholars and students in this growing area of inquiry. Volume I covers general approaches to the study of the mind: behaviorism, reductionism, and functionalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674594593
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	02/05/1980
Series:	The Language and Thought Series , #1
Edition description:	Reprint 2014
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Block Ned :

Ned Block is Professor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

Introduction. What Is Philosophy of Psychology?

Ned Block

Part One: Behaviorism

Introduction: Behaviorism

Harris Savin

1. The Logical Analysis of Psychology

Carl G. Hempel

2. Brains and Behavior

Hilary Putnam

3. Selections from Science and Human Behavior

B. F. Skinner

4. A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior

Noam Chomsky

Part Two: Reductionism and Physicalism

Materialism without Reductionism: What Physicalism Does Not Entail

Richard Boyd

5. Mental Events

Donald Davidson

6. Special Sciences, or The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis

Jerry A. Fodor

7. Philosophy and Our Mental Life

Hilary Putnam

8. Excerpt from "Identity and Necessity"

Saul A. Kripke

9. Identity, Necessity, and Events

Fred Feldman

10. Anomalous Monism and Kripke's Cartesian Intuitions

Cohn McGinn

11. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

Thomas Nagel

Part Three: Functionalism

Introduction: What Is Functionalism?

Ned Block

Functional Analysis

12. Functional Analysis

Robert Cummins

Functional Specification

13. The Nature of Mind

D. M. Armstrong

14. Armstrong on the Mind

Thomas Nagel

15. Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications

David Lewis

16. Mad Pain and Martian Pain

David Lewis

Functional State Identity Theory

17. The Nature of Mental States

Hilary Putnam

18. Review of Putnam

David Lewis

19. Physicalism and the Multiple Realizability of Mental States

Jaegwon Kim

20. What Psychological States Are Not

Ned Block and Jerry A. Fodor

21. Functionalism and Qualia

Sydney Shoemaker

22. Troubles with Functionalism

Ned Block

Index

What People are Saying About This

Daniel Osherson

A splendid collection. The papers assembled in Block's anthology will prove to be of lasting value to anyone wishing to engage the philosophical dimension of cognitive science.

A splendid collection. The papers assembled in Block's anthology will prove to be of lasting value to anyone wishing to engage the philosophical dimension of cognitive science.

Editorial Reviews

Block's anthology is sure to become a standard reference for philosophy of psychology; the papers [have]...already fixed the general direction of this field for the next several years. Cognitive psychology cannot but profit from the interest that this anthology is sure to generate among philosophers.

A splendid collection. The papers assembled in Block's anthology will prove to be of lasting value to anyone wishing to engage the philosophical dimension of cognitive science.

From the Publisher

Block's anthology is sure to become a standard reference for philosophy of psychology; the papers [have]...already fixed the general direction of this field for the next several years. Cognitive psychology cannot but profit from the interest that this anthology is sure to generate among philosophers.

Contemporary Psychology

A splendid collection. The papers assembled in Block's anthology will prove to be of lasting value to anyone wishing to engage the philosophical dimension of cognitive science.

Daniel Osherson