Philosophy of mind in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The history of the philosophy of mind. Volume 6

345 Pages·2019·2.63 MB·English

by  Kind

PHILOSOPHY OF MIND IN THE
TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST
CENTURIES
While the philosophical study of mind has always required philosophers to attend
to the scientific developments of their day, from the twentieth century onwards it
has been especially influenced and informed by psychology, neuroscience, and
computer science.
Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries provides
an outstanding survey of the most prominent themes in twentieth-century and
contemporary philosophy of mind. It also looks to the future, offering cautious
predictions about developments in the field in the years to come.
Following an introduction by Amy Kind, twelve specially commissioned
chapters by an international team of contributors discuss key topics, thinkers, and
debates, including:
• the phenomenological tradition,
• the mind–body problem,
• theories of consciousness,
• theories of perception,
• theories of personal identity,
• mental causation,
• intentionality,
• Wittgenstein and his legacy,
• cognitive science, and
• future directions for philosophy of mind.
Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and philosophy
of psychology, Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries is
also a valuable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology and
cognitive science.
Amy Kind is Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna
College, USA. Her research interests lie broadly in the philosophy of mind,
but most of her work centers on issues relating to imagination and phenomenal
consciousness. In addition to authoring the introductory textbook Persons and
Personal Identity (2015), she has edited The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of
Imagination (2016) and co-edited Knowledge Through Imagination (2016).
The History of the Philosophy of Mind
General Editors: Rebecca Copenhaver and Christopher Shields
The History of the Philosophy of Mind is a major six-volume reference collection,
covering the key topics, thinkers, and debates within philosophy of mind, from
Antiquity to the present day. Each volume is edited by a leading scholar in the
field and comprises chapters written by an international team of specially com-
missioned contributors.
Including a general introduction by Rebecca Copenhaver and Christopher
Shields, and fully cross-referenced within and across the six volumes, The His-
tory of the Philosophy of Mind is an essential resource for students and research-
ers in philosophy of mind, and will also be of interest to those in many related
disciplines, including Classics, Religion, Literature, History of Psychology, and
Cognitive Science.
VOL. 1 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND IN ANTIQUITY
edited by John E. Sisko
VOL. 2 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND IN THE EARLY AND
HIGH MIDDLE AGES
edited by Margaret Cameron
VOL. 3 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES AND
RENAISSANCE
edited by Stephan Schmid
VOL. 4 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND IN THE EARLY MODERN
AND MODERN AGES
edited by Rebecca Copenhaver
VOL. 5 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
edited by Sandra Lapointe
VOL. 6 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND IN THE TWENTIETH AND
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES
edited by Amy Kind
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
IN THE TWENTIETH AND
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES
The History of the Philosophy of Mind,
Volume 6
Edited by Amy Kind
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CONTENTS
List of contributors vii
General introduction x
REBECCA COPENHAVER AND CHRISTOPHER SHIELDS
Introduction to volume 6: twentieth-century philosophy
of mind: themes, problems, and scientific context 1
AMY KIND
1 Philosophy of mind in the phenomenological tradition 21
PHILIP J. WALSH AND JEFF YOSHIMI
2 The mind-body problem in 20th-century philosophy 52
AMY KIND
3 A short history of philosophical theories of consciousness
in the 20th century 78
TIM CRANE
4 20th-century theories of perception 104
NICO ORLANDI
5 20th-century theories of personal identity 126
JENS JOHANSSON
6 Introspecting in the 20th century 148
MAJA SPENER
7 The mental causation debates in the 20th century 175
JULIE YOO
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8 Intentionality: from Brentano to representationalism 200
MICHELLE MONTAGUE
9 Wittgenstein and his legacy 233
SEVERIN SCHROEDER
10 The boundaries of the mind 256
KATALIN FARKAS
11 The rise of cognitive science in the 20th century 280
CARRIE FIGDOR
12 How philosophy of mind can shape the future 303
SUSAN SCHNEIDER AND PETE MANDIK
Index 320
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CONTRIBUTORS
Tim Crane is professor of philosophy at the Central European University, Buda-
pest. He has written on a number of topics in the philosophy of mind, including
intentionality, consciousness, perception, mental causation, and physicalism.
His books include The Mechanical Mind (1995, 3rd edition 2015), Elements of
Mind (2001), The Objects of Thought (2013), Aspects of Psychologism (2014),
The Meaning of Belief (2017), and (as editor) The Contents of Experience
(1992) and A Debate on Dispositions (1996). He is the Philosophy Consultant
Editor of the TLS.
Katalin Farkas is professor of philosophy at the Central European University,
Budapest. Her main interests are the philosophy of mind and epistemology.
Her book The Subject’s Point of View (OUP 2008) defends an internalist con-
ception of the boundaries of the mind.
Carrie Figdor is associate professor at the University of Iowa, Department of
Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience. She pub-
lishes on topics at the intersection of philosophy of mind, science, and language,
on epistemology and ethics of journalism, and on metaphysics. Her monograph
Pieces of Mind: The Proper Domain of Psychological Predicates is forthcom-
ing with Oxford University Press, and her work has appeared in The Journal of
Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Topics in Cognitive Science, Mind & Lan-
guage, Frontiers in Communication, among others. She co-hosts “New Books
in Philosophy” (http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/philosophy/) a podcast
that features interviews with philosophers about their new books.
Jens Johansson is Professor of Practical Philosophy at Uppsala University. He
has published a number of essays on the philosophy of death, personal identity,
and related issues, and co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death
(2013, with Ben Bradley and Fred Feldman).
Amy Kind is Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna
College. Her research interests lie broadly in the philosophy of mind, but most
of her work centers on issues relating to imagination and to phenomenal con-
sciousness. In addition to authoring the introductory textbook Persons and
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Personal Identity (Polity, 2015), she has edited The Routledge Handbook of
Philosophy of Imagination (Routledge, 2016) and she has co-edited Knowl-
edge through Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Pete Mandik is professor of philosophy at William Paterson University of New
Jersey. He is author of This Is Philosophy of Mind (2013) and Key Terms in
Philosophy of Mind (2010).
Michelle Montague is Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of
Texas, Austin. Her work focuses on the philosophy of mind, primarily on
consciousness and intentionality. In addition to publishing numerous articles
in these areas, she is the author of The Given: Experience and Its Content
(Oxford University Press, 2016), the co-editor with Tim Bayne of Cogni-
tive Phenomenology (Oxford University Press, 2011), and the co-editor with
Galen Strawson of Philosophical Writings by P. F. Strawson (Oxford Univer-
sity Press, 2011).
Nico Orlandi is associate professor of philosophy at the University of California,
Santa Cruz. Nico specializes in philosophy of mind and philosophy of psy-
chology and neuroscience, and has published several articles in addition to a
book, The Innocent Eye: Why Vision Is Not a Cognitive Process.
Susan Schneider teaches at the University of Connecticut and is a member of the
technology and ethics group at Yale and the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton. Schneider writes about matters involving the metaphysics of mind,
AI, and philosophy of cognitive science. She also writes opinion pieces for
venues like The New York Times, Nautilus, and Scientific American. Her work
wrestles with vexed questions about the metaphysical nature of the self and
mind. Her books include the Blackwell Companion to Consciousness (with
Max Velmans), Science Fiction and Philosophy and The Language of Thought:
A New Philosophical Direction, as well as a forthcoming trade book, Future
Minds. Her website SchneiderWebsite.com features many online lectures,
interviews, and papers.
Severin Schroeder is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Read-
ing. He has written three monographs on Wittgenstein: Wittgenstein: The Way
Out of the Fly Bottle (Polity, 2006), Wittgenstein Lesen (Frommann-Holzboog,
2009), and Das Privatsprachen-Argument (Schöningh/Mentis, 1998). He is the
editor of Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (Palgrave 2001)
and Philosophy of Literature (Wiley-Blackwell 2010). He is currently working
on a book on Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics (Routledge).
Maja Spener is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of
Birmingham (UK). She is writing a book on introspective method in philoso-
phy and scientific psychology.
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Philip J. Walsh is a post-doctoral teaching fellow at Fordham University. His
research focuses on phenomenology and philosophy of mind. His published
work includes articles on Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, as well as contemporary
debates about perception, thought, expression, agency, and social cognition.
Julie Yoo is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the California State Uni-
versity, Northridge. She has published articles in philosophy of mind and phi-
losophy of language. Her research areas also include metaphysics and feminist
philosophy.
Jeff Yoshimi is an Associate Professor of philosophy and cognitive science in the
Cognitive and Information Science department at UC Merced. He is a founding
faculty member, having arrived in 2004, before the campus opened. He does
work in phenomenology, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, neural
networks, dynamical systems theory, and visualization of complex processes.
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