Naturalism, Evolution and Mind / edited by D.M. Walsh.
This collection of original essays covers a wide range of issues in current naturalised philosophy of mind. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which concepts drawn from evolutionary biology might enhance our understanding of the place of mind in the natural world. Issues covered include: th...
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Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ;
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Table of Contents:
- Mind the adaptation / Lawrence A. Shapiro
- Should intentionality be naturalized? / Thomas Bontly
- Consciousness: explaining the phenomena / Peter Carruthers
- Norms, history and the mental / Fred Dretske
- What has natural information to do with intentional representation? / Ruth Garrett Millikan
- Locke-ing onto content / Frank Jackson
- The evolution of means-end reasoning / David Papineau
- Rationality and higher-order intentionality / Alan Millar
- Theory of mind in non-verbal apes: conceptual issues and the critical experiments / Andrew Whiten
- The principle of conservatism in cognitive ethology / Elliott Sober
- Domains, brains and evolution / Michael Wheeler and Anthony Atkinson
- Evolution and the human mind: how far can we go? / Henry Plotkin.