1st Edition
Introducing Philosophy of Mind, Today
Introduction
PART I: SEEING AND FEELING
Chapter 1: Consciousness
Andrew Y. Lee, “The Light & the Room”
Eric Schwitzgebel, “Response to Lee: Is Being Conscious Like Having the Lights Turned On?”
Chapter 2: Seeing and Learning to See
Madeleine Ransom, “What Kinds of Things Can We See?”
Adrienne Prettyman, “Response to Ransom: Patterns, Pines and Parsimony”
Chapter 3: Perception and Hallucination
Umrao Sethi, “The Problem of Perception”
Adam Pautz, “Response to Sethi: A Representationalist Solution to the Problem of Perception”
Chapter 4: Emotion
Kate Pendoley, “Emotion and Analogy”
Gen Eickers, “Response to Pendoley: Emotions Beyond Perception”
Chapter 5: Episodic Memory
Sarah Robins, “Remembering Your Past and Philosophy of Mind’s Future”
Johannes Mahr, “Response to Robins: Propositional Content and Representational Format in Episodic Memory”
PART II: THINKING AND ACTING
Chapter 6: Agency
Santiago Amaya, “The Mental Life of Agents”
Myrto Mylopolous, “Response to Amaya: Agency and Control”
Chapter 7: Thinking in and with your Environment
Amanda Corris, “Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Extended, Enactive, and Affective”
Gary Hatfield, “Response to Corris: Ecological Reflections of 4EA Cognition and Perception”
Chapter 8: Human Finitude and the Nature of Thought
Olivia Sultanescu, “Finite Thinkers”
David Cerbone, “Response to Sultanescu: To be a Thinker is to be Finite”
Chapter 9: Inner Speech
Shivam Patel, “What’s that Little Voice in Your Head?”
Daniel Gregory, “Response to Patel: Real Voices or Represented Ones?”
PART III: CHATBOTS AND REPLICANTS
Chapter 10: Can Computers Communicate?
Nuhu Osman Attah, “Talking Machines”
Cameron Buckner, “Response to Attah: Reverse Engineering Large Language Models”
Chapter 11: Artificial General Intelligence
Ben Baker, “Rethinking Artificial General Intelligence”
Catherine Stinson, “Response to Baker: Genius, Child, or Fake? How to Achieve Artificial General Intelligence”
Chapter 12: Brains as Computers
Luis H. Favela, “Is the Brain a Computer?”
Mazviita Chirimuuta, “Response to Favela: The Medium Dependence of Information Processing in the Brain”
Chapter 13: AI Chatbot Therapists
Şerife Tekin, “AI Chatbot Therapists Don’t Know You Any Better Than You Know Yourself”
Joseph Gough, “Response to Tekin: My Therapist the Chatbot: Therapeutic Relationships and Therapeutic AI”
PART IV: STUDYING NEURAL AND COGNITIVE KINDS
Chapter 14: Mental Functions
Louise Daoust, “What are Mental Capacities For?”
Mohan Matthen, “Response to Daoust: Function and Definition in the Mind Sciences”
Chapter 15: Male and Female Brains
Zina B. Ward, “Are the “Female Brain” and “Male Brain” Natural Kinds?”
Muhammad Ali Khalidi, “Response to Ward: Sexed Brains and Gendered Minds”
Chapter 16: Empathy
Riana J. Betzler, “The Science of Empathy and its Implications for How We Ought to Live”
Shannon Spaulding, “Response to Betzler: I Feel You”
Chapter 17: Animal Minds
Alexandria Boyle, “Why is There So Much Disagreement about Animal Minds?”
Kristin Andrews, “Response to Boyle: What are We Disagreeing About?”
PART V: HOW WE TALK ABOUT MINDS
Chapter 18: Marks of the Mental
Devin Sanchez Curry, “A Social Mark of the Mental”
Carrie Figdor, “Response to Curry: Minds Don’t Depend on Our Models”
Chapter 19: Neurodiversity
Víctor Fernández Castro & Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo, “Non-Ideal Philosophy of Mind, Folk Psychology, and Neurodiversity”
Justin Garson, “Response to Fernández Castro & Núñez de Prado-Gordillo: Why Do We Pathologize Cognitive Differences?”
Chapter 20: Building Minds Together
Javier Gomez-Lavin, “How to Build a Mind”
Tim Elmo Feiten & Anthony Chemero, “Response to Gomez-Lavin: How Should We Study Social Minds?”
Glossary
Biography
Devin Sanchez Curry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV.
Louise Daoust is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL.
"Through masterful curation, Curry and Daoust’s anthology widens the horizons of the philosophy of mind by expanding its range of topics, debates, and voices, all the while preserving and highlighting continuities with past philosophers and their construals of the field."
Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University, USA
"Introducing Philosophy of Mind, Today is a gem. It is the best textbook on the current state of philosophy of mind available, introducing students to the wide range of debates that animate the field and to the seamless integration of classical philosophical methods with cutting edge work in the cognitive sciences."
Josh Armstrong, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, UCLA, USA
