Table of Contents

Contents: S.M. Christensen, D.R. Turner, Introduction. Part I: The Elimination of Folk Psychology. P. Feyerabend, Materialism and the Mind-Body Problem. R. Rorty, Mind-Body Identity, Privacy, and Categories. P.M. Churchland, Eliminative Materialism and Propositional Attitudes. R.N. McCauley, Intertheoretic Relations and the Future of Psychology. S.P. Stich, Will the Concepts of Folk Psychology Find a Place in Cognitive Science? S.P. Stich, The Future of Folk Psychology. Part II: The Case Against the Case Against Belief. D.C. Dennett, Three Kinds of Intentional Psychology. T. Horgan, J. Woodward, Folk Psychology Is Here to Stay. K.V. Wilkes, The Relationship Between Scientific Psychology and Common Sense Psychology. R.A. Sharpe, The Very Idea of a Folk Psychology. G. Graham, The Origins of Folk Psychology. J.A. Fodor, The Persistence of the Attitudes. P.M. Churchland, Folk Psychology and the Explanation of Human Behavior. J. Haldane, Understanding Folk. T. Horgan, G. Graham, In Defense of Southern Fundamentalism. Part III: Connectionism: The Death of Folk Psychology? W. Ramsey, S.P. Stich, J. Garon, Connectionism, Eliminativism, and the Future of Folk Psychology. W. Bechtel, A.A. Abrahamsen, Connectionism and the Future of Folk Psychology. G.J. O'Brien, The Connectionist Vindication of Folk Psychology. R. Rorty, Consciousness, Intentionality, and Pragmatism.

About the Author

Scott M. Christensen, Dale R. Turner

Reviews

"...provides a lavish, if not exhaustive, sampling of suggested relationships and current scholarly debates....of special interest to persons interested in the philosophy of science."
—Science Books & Films"...an excellent and overdue anthology, most appropriate for advanced courses in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology....the anthology is suited for a course on folk psychology. For such a course, Folk Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind has no equal."
—Teaching Philosophy"A splendid collection of seminal papers on the status, nature and revisability of folk psychology."
—Patricia S. Churchland
University of California, San Diego"The anthology we have needed, to state the case for and against eliminativism in psychological theory. Turner and Christensen have assembled all the usual suspects, in the right order, with their best case arguments...a perfect introduction to the philosophy of psychology."
—Alex Rosenberg
University of California, Riverside