Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Toward a Natural Philosophy of Mind
2 The Philosophical Quest for Ultimate Knowledge
3 The Intertwining of Self and Knowledge
4 A Pragmatist Naturalistic Framework for Embodied Mind and Knowing
5 The Challenge of a Meaningful Science of Mind: The Quest for an Objective Human Science
6 Embodied Meaning and Thought
7 The Mind's Anatomy
8 How Information is Captured by Neural Networks
9 The Motive Control of Experience
10 What Is a Concept? The Influence of Motive Control on the Formation of Concepts and Personality
11 Abstraction, Self-Awareness, and the Subjective Basis of Knowledge
12 Outline for a Contemporary Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing
References
Index

About the Author

Mark L. Johnson is Professor of Philosophy and Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emeritus, at the University of Oregon. He is most recently the author of Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason as well as The Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought and other books. Don M. Tucker is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Neuroinformatics Center at the University of Oregon. Inventor of the geodesic sensor net, he is CEO and Senior Scientist at Brain Electrophysiology Laboratory Company.