Overview

This volume collects the best and most influential essays that Stephen Stich has published in the last 40 years on topics in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. They discuss a wide range of topics including grammar, innateness, reference, folk psychology, eliminativism, connectionism, evolutionary psychology, simulation theory, social construction, and psychopathology. However, they are unified by two central concerns. The first is the viability of the commonsense conception of the mind in the face of challenges posed by both philosophical arguments and empirical findings. The second is the philosophical implications of research in the cognitive sciences which, in the last half century, has transformed both our understanding of the mind and the ways in which the mind is studied. The volume includes a new introductory essay that elaborates on these themes and offers an overview of the papers that follow.

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Author:   Stephen Stich (Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 16.50cm
Weight:   0.672kg
ISBN:  

9780199734108

ISBN 10:   0199734100
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   22 September 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Grammar, Psychology, and Interdeterminancy 2: The Idea of Innateness 3: Beliefs and Subdoxastic States 4: Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis 5: Dennett on International Systems 6: Connectionism, Eliminativism and the Future of Folk Psychology, William Ramsey, Stephen Stich, and Joseph Garon 7: Connectionism and Three Levels of Nativism, William Ramsey and Stephen Stich 8: Narrow Content Meets Fat Syntax 9: Folk Psychology: Simulation vs. Tacit Theory?, Stephen Stich and Shaun Nichols 10: Intentionality and Naturalism, Stephen Stich and Stephen Laurence 11: What Is Folk Psychology?, Stephen Stich and Ian Ravenscroft 12: The Flight to Reference, or How Not to Make Progress in the Philosophy of Science, Michael A. Bishop and Stephen Stich 13: The Odd Couple: The Compatibility of Social Construction and Evolutionary Psychology, Ron Mallon and Stephen Stich 14: Darwin in the Madhouse: Evolutionary Psychology and the Classification of Mental Disorders, Dominic Murphy and Stephen Stich 15: Folk Psychology, Stephen Stich and Shaun Nichols 16: Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style, Edouard Machery, Ron Mallon, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich 17: Against Arguments from Reference, Ron Mallon, Edouard Machery, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich

Reviews

<br> Stich has been, and no doubt will continue to be, a hugely influential figure in the philosophy of mind and its interface with the cognitive sciences. This volume is a fitting record of his considerable achievements and ongoing contribution. --Jose Luis Bermudez, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<br><br><p><br>

""..The papers collected in these two volumes have been cited and reprinted many times. But the two introductory essays make clear that, for Stich, the academic aspect of philosophy is inseparable from the human aspect: the chance encounters, the successes and failures, the collaborators, critics, and students. The philosophical process comes across as a flawed but optimistic enterprise, but ultimately as an enterprise which is inescapably human."" --Zoe Drayson, Mind ""Stich has been, and no doubt will continue to be, a hugely influential figure in the philosophy of mind and its interface with the cognitive sciences. This volume is a fitting record of his considerable achievements and ongoing contribution.""--José Luis Bermúdez, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

<br> Stich has been, and no doubt will continue to be, a hugely influential figure in the philosophy of mind and its interface with the cognitive sciences. This volume is a fitting record of his considerable achievements and ongoing contribution. --Jos Luis Berm dez, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<br><br><p><br>

Author Information

Stephen Stich is Board of Governors Professor, Philosophy Department, Rutgers University. He is the author of Deconstructing the Mind and Mindreading with Shaun Nichols.

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