A Bradford book.
A default position
Experience
The character of experience
Understanding-experience
A note about dispositional mental states
Purely experiential content
An account of four seconds of thought
Questions
The mental and the nonmental
The mental and the publicly observable
The mental and the behavioral
Neobehaviorism and reductionism
Naturalism in the philosophy of mind
Conclusion: The three questions
Agnostic materialism, part 1
Monism
The linguistic argument
Materialism and monism
A comment on reduction
The impossibility of an objective phenomenology
Asymmetry and reduction
Equal-status monism
Panpsychism
The inescapability of metaphysics
Agnostic materialism, part 2
Ignorance
Sensory spaces
Experience, explanation, and theoretical integration
The hard part of the mind-body problem
Neutral monism and agnostic monism
A comment on eliminativism, instrumentalism, and so on
Mentalism, idealism, and immaterialism
Mentalism
Strict or pure process idealism
Active-principle idealism
Stuff idealism
Immaterialism
The positions restated
The dualist options
Frege's thesis
Objections to pure process idealism
The problem of mental dispositions
Mental
Shared abilities
The sorting ability
The definition of mental being
Mental phenomena
The view that all mental phenomena are experiential phenomena
Natural intentionality
E/c intentionality
The experienceless
Intentionality and abstract and nonexistent objects
Experience, purely experiential content, and n/c intentionality
Concepts in nature
Intentionality and experience
Summary with problem
Pain and pain
The neo-behaviorist view
A linguistic argument for the necessary connection between pain and behavior
A challenge
The Sirians
N.N. Novel
An objection to the Sirians
The Betelgeuzians
The point of the Sirians
Functionalism, naturalism, and realism about pain
Unpleasantness and qualitative character
The weather watchers
The rooting story
What is it like to be a weather watcher?
The aptitudes of mental states
The argument from the conditions for possessing the concept of space
The argument from the conditions for language ability
The argument from the nature of desire
Desire and affect
The argument from the phenomenology of desire
Behavior
A hopeless definition
Difficulties
Other-observability
Neo-behaviorism
The concept of mind.
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Mental reality by Galen Strawson. ISBN 9780262513104. Published by MIT Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
