The Churchlands and Their Critics

TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures x
Notes on Contributors xii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
Robert N. McCauley
Part I Essays Addressed to the Churchlands 15
1 Explanatory Pluralism and the Co-evolution of Theories in Science

Robert N. McCauley

17
2 From Neurophilosophy to Neurocomputation: Searching for the Cognitive Forest

Patricia Kitcher

48
3 Dealing in Futures: Folk Psychology and the Role of Representations in Cognitive Science

Andy Clark

86
4 Paul Churchland’s PDP Approach to Explanation

William G. Lycan

104
5 What Should a Connectionist Philosophy of Science Look Like?

William Bechtel

121
6 Paul Churchland and State Space Semantics

Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore

145
Reply to Churchland

Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore

159
7 Images and Subjectivity: Neurobiological Trials and Tribulations

William G. Lycan

163
8 The Furniture of Mind: A Yard of Hope, a Ton of Terror?

John Marshall and Jennifer Gurd

176
9 The Moral Network

Owen Flanagan

192
Part II Replies from the Churchlands 217
A—The Future of Psychology, Folk and Scientific
219
10 McCauley’s Demand for a Co-level Competitor 222
11 Connectionism as Psychology 232
12 Kitcher’s Empirical Challenge: Has There Been Progress in Neurophilosophy? 239
13 Clark’s Connectionist Defense of Folk Psychology 250
B—The Impact of Neural Network Models on the Philosophy of Science
256
14 On the Nature of Explanation: William Lycan 257
15 Bechtel on the Proper Form of a Connectionist Philosophy of Science 265
C—Semantics in a New Vein 271
16 Fodor and Lepore: State-Space Semantics and Meaning Holism 272
17 Second Reply to Fodor and Lepore 274
D—Consciousness and Methodology 284
18 Neuropsychology and Brain Organization: The Damasios 285
19 Conceptual Analysis and Neuropsychology: John Marshall and Jennifer Gurd 290
20 Do We Propose to Eliminate Consciousness? 297
E—Moral Psychology and the Rebirth of Moral Theory 301
21 Flanagan on Moral Knowledge 302
Index 311