TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Preface
Preface to 2nd Edition
Chapter 1. A SCIENCE OF COGNITION
Human Beings as Thinking Things, Explaining Human Behavior, Explanations
Without Cognition, Cognition and Explanation, Scientific Theories and Laws
Chapter 2. ARE WE BRAINS IN VATS?
Common-Sense Psychology, Eliminative Materialism, Minds as Brains in
Vats, Where in the World Are Meanings?, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive
Science
Chapter 3. MINDS AND MACHINES
Turing Machines, The Imitation Game, The Chinese Room, Understanding
Natural Language, The Problem of Other Minds
Chapter 4. THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE
Physical Symbol Systems, The Computational Conception, The Problem
of Representation, The Primacy of Primitives, Causal Theories of Reference
Chapter 5. WHAT IS MENTALITY?
Intensionality, Intensional Contexts, Semiotic Systems, Modes of Mentality,
Higher Types of Mentality
Chapter 6. CONNECTIONISM AND COGNITION
A Dispositional Conception, Concepts and Cognition, Connectionist Networks,
Bodies and Minds, The Laws of Cognition
Chapter 7. MENTAL DEVELOPMENT
Rationalism and Empiricism, Habits of Mind, Functionally Similar Systems,
Epigenetic Rules, Gene-Culture Coevolution
Chapter 8. ARE HUMANS RATIONAL?
The Nature of Logic, Human Rationality, Rationality of Action, Rationality
of Belief, Evolution and Rationality
Chapter 9. MENTALITY, CAUSALITY, MORALITY
Communication and Convention, Transient Rationality, The Analytic and
A Posteriori, Cognitive Explanations, Freedom and Morality
For Further Reading
References
Name Index
Subject Index
JAMES H. FETZER is McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He is author of Philosophy of Science and Foundations of Philosophy of Science: Recent Developments and co-author of Glossary of Epistemology/Philosophy of Science and Glossary of Cognitive Science. He is Editor of Minds and Machines and Series Editor of Studies in Cognitive Systems.