1990•Medical Entomology and ZoologyRequires access

Mind and cognition : a reader

William G. Lycan

Open publisher page 407 citations

Abstract

Part 1 Ontology from behaviourism to functionalism: behaviourism the identity theory early causal and functionalist views. Part 2 Homuncular functionalism and other teleological theories: homuncular functionalism teleological functionalism theleological views of intentionality. Part 3 Instrumentalism: true believers Dennett on intentional systems making sense of ourselves. Part 4 Eliminativism and neurophilosophy: classical eliminativism current eliminativism neurophilosophy and connectionism. Part 5 The Language of Thought hypothesis: defending the Language of Thought attacking psychosemantics. Part 6 The status of psychology: attacking folk psychology defending. Part 7 Consciousness, Qualia and subjectivity: Qualia - based objections to functionalism functionalist responses.

About this research paper

What this paper is about

Part 1 Ontology from behaviourism to functionalism: behaviourism the identity theory early causal and functionalist views. Part 2 Homuncular functionalism and other teleological theories: homuncular functionalism teleological functionalism theleological views of intentionality. Part 3 Instrumentalism: true believers Dennett on intentional systems making sense of ourselves. Part 4 Eliminativism and neurophilosophy: classical eliminativism current eliminativism neurophilosophy and connectionism. Part 5 The Language of Thought hypothesis: defending the Language of Thought attacking psychosemantics. Part 6 The status of psychology: attacking folk psychology defending. Part 7 Consciousness, Qualia and subjectivity: Qualia - based objections to functionalism functionalist responses.

Why it matters

OpenAlex reports 407 citations for this work. Citation counts describe recorded attention and do not establish research quality.

Key contribution

A contribution statement is not available in the OpenAlex record.

Method / approach

Method details are not available in the OpenAlex metadata.

Main findings

Findings are not separately available in the OpenAlex metadata.

Limitations

Limitations are not available in the OpenAlex metadata.

Applications

Application details are not available in the OpenAlex metadata.

Available abstract

Part 1 Ontology from behaviourism to functionalism: behaviourism the identity theory early causal and functionalist views. Part 2 Homuncular functionalism and other teleological theories: homuncular functionalism teleological functionalism theleological views of intentionality. Part 3 Instrumentalism: true believers Dennett on intentional systems making sense of ourselves. Part 4 Eliminativism and neurophilosophy: classical eliminativism current eliminativism neurophilosophy and connectionism. Part 5 The Language of Thought hypothesis: defending the Language of Thought attacking psychosemantics. Part 6 The status of psychology: attacking folk psychology defending. Part 7 Consciousness, Qualia and subjectivity: Qualia - based objections to functionalism functionalist responses.

Key concepts: Functionalism (philosophy of mind), Eliminative materialism, Qualia, Philosophy of mind, Epistemology, Intentionality, Structural functionalism, Philosophy

Related papers

Back to paper searchBrowse research topicsOriginal source
Mind and cognition : a reader — Research Paper | ScholarLens