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
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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
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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 |