philosophy of mind

Introduction
Philosophy of mind and empirical psychology
Terminology and distinctions
- Some basic metaphysical categories
  - Substance
  - Object
  - Abstract and concrete
  - Properties and relations
  - States and events
- Thoughts and attitudes
  - Thoughts and propositions
  - Types and tokens
  - Concepts
  - Propositional attitudes
- Sensations and qualitative states
- Emotions, moods, and traits
Main problematic phenomena
- Consciousness
- Rationality
  - Deduction
  - Induction
  - Abduction
  - Practical reason
- Intentionality
- Peripheral issues
  - Free will
  - The soul and personal identity
Traditional metaphysical positions
- Reductionism
  - The identity theory
  - Explanatory gaps
- Dualism
  - Substance dualism and property dualism
  - Causal relations and epiphenomenalism
- Eliminativism: Behaviourism and instrumentalism
  - The need for nontendentious evidence
  - Radical behaviourism
- Irreferentialism
  - Wittgenstein
  - Ryle and analytical behaviourism
- Functionalism
The computational-representational theory of thought (CRTT)
- The computational account of rationality
- Research strategies for intentionality
- Objections and responses
  - Introspection
  - Homunculi
  - Artifactuality and artificial intelligence (AI)
  - Searle’s “Chinese room”
  - Block’s “nation of China”
Further issues
- Consciousness reconsidered
  - Executives, buffers, and HOTs
  - “What it’s like”
  - Qualitative states
  - Representationalism
- Remaining gaps and first-person skepticism

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Max Weber, 1918.

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