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The Churchlands and their Critics

Robert McCauley (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-18969-5
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336 pages
June 1996, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction.

Part I: Essays Addressed to the Churchlands:.

1. Explanatory Pluralism and the Co-evolution of Theories in Science: Robert N McCauley (Emory University).

2. From Neurophilosophy to neurocomputation: Searching for the Cognitive Forest: Patricia Kitcher (University of California at San Diego).

3. Dealing in Futures: Folk Psychology and the Role of Representations in Cognitive Science: Andy Clark (Washington University).

4. Paul Churchland's PDP Approach to Explanation: William G Lycan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

5. What should a Connectionist Philosophy of Science Look Like?: William Bechtel (Georgia State University).

6. Paul Churchland and State Space Semantics: Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University).

7. Reply to Churchland: Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University).

8. Images and subjectivity: Neurobiological Trials and Tribulations: Antonio R Damasio and Hanna Damasio (University of California at San Diego).

9. Neurophilosophy: Without a Hyphen Already: John Marshall and Jennifer Gurd (University of Oxford).

10. The Moral Network: Owen Flanagan (Duke University).

Part II: Replies From the Churchlands A: The Future of Psychology, Folk and Scientific:.

1. McCauley's Demand for a Co-level Competitor.

2. Connectionism as Psychology.

3. Kitcher's Empirical Challenge to PSC: Has There Been Progress in Neurophilosophy?.

4. Clark's Connectionist Defense of Folk Psychology. B: The Impact of Neural Network Models on the Philosophy of Science:.

5. On the Nature of Explanation: William Lycan.

6. Bechtel on the Proper Form of a Connectionist Philosophy of Science. C: Semantics in a New Vein:.

7. Fodor and Lepore: State-Space Semantics and Meaning Holism.

8. Second Reply to Fodor and Lepore. D: Consciousness and Methodology:.

9. Neuropsychology and Brain Organization: The Damasios.

10. Conceptual Analysis and Neuropsychology: John Marshall and Jennifer Gurd.

11. Do We Propose to Eliminate Consciousness?E: Moral Psychology and the Rebirth of Moral Theory:.

12. Flanagan on Moral Knowledge.

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