Naturalizing The Mind

By: Fred Dretske

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Paperback | 21 August 1997

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How can the baffling problems of phenomenal experience be accounted for? In this provocative book, Fred Dretske argues that to achieve an understanding of the mind it is not enough to understand the biological machinery by means of which the mind does its job. One must understand what the mind's job is and how this task can be performed by a physical system--the nervous system. "Naturalizing the Mind" skillfully develops a representational theory of the qualitative, the phenomenal, the what-it-is-like aspects of the mind that have defied traditional forms of naturalism. Central to Dretske's approach is the claim that the phenomenal aspects of perceptual experiences are one and the same as external, real-world properties that experience represents objects as having. Combined with an evolutionary account of sensory representation, the result is a completely naturalistic account of phenomenal consciousness.

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Non-Fiction Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Phenomenology & Existentialism Philosophy of The Mind Metaphysics & Ontology Psychological Theory, Systems, Schools of Thought & Viewpoints Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory

Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Prologue
The Representational Character of Sense Experience
The Nature of Representation
Natural and Conventional Representations
Representational Systems and Representational States
Represented Properties and Represented Objects
Intentionality
Mind and Brain: The Whereabouts of Experience
Introspection
Displaced Perception
Knowing Another's Mind
Knowing One's Own Mind
Knowledge without Experience
Qualia
French Poodles and French Wine
Qualia as Represented Properties
Points of View
What Is It Like to Experience Electric Fields?
What Is It Like to Be an Experiencer of Electric Fields?
Consciousness
Conscious Beings and Conscious States
Higher-order Theories of State Consciousness
The Function of Consciousness
Externalism and Supervenience
Seeming and Supervenience
Replacement Arguments and Absent Qualia
Explanatory Relevance
Evolutionary Origins
References
Index
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