Mental Reality, second edition, with a new appendix

By: Galen Strawson

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Paperback | 9 October 2009 | Edition Number 2

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In "Mental Reality, " Galen Strawson argues that much contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy of place to publicly observable phenomena, nonmental phenomena, and behavioral phenomena (understood as publicly observable phenomena) in its account of the nature of mind. It does so at the expense of the phenomena of conscious experience. Strawson describes an alternative position, "naturalized Cartesianism," which couples the materialist view that mind is entirely natural and wholly physical with a fully realist account of the nature of conscious experience. Naturalized Cartesianism is an adductive (as opposed to reductive) form of materialism. Adductive materialists don't claim that conscious experience is anything less than we ordinarily conceive it to be, in being wholly physical. They claim instead that the physical is something more than we ordinarily conceive it to be, given that many of the wholly physical goings-on in the brain constitute--literally are--conscious experiences as we ordinarily conceive them. Since naturalized Cartesianism downgrades the place of reference to nonmental and publicly observable phenomena in an adequate account of mental phenomena, Strawson considers in detail the question of what part such reference still has to play. He argues that it is a mistake to think that all behavioral phenomena are publicly observable phenomena. This revised and expanded edition of "Mental Reality" includes a new appendix, which thoroughly revises the account of intentionality given in chapter 7. "Representation and Mind series" "A Bradford Book"

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Praise for the first edition: In Mental Reality, Galen Strawson tries to determine what the fundamental and difficult questions about the mind are, and to answer them. His answers are iconoclastic and brilliant, especially his sustained criticism of behaviorism, functionalism and of certain ideas associated with Wittgenstein.

-- Paul Snowdon * Philosophy and Phenomenological Research *

Praise for the first edition: Perhaps the most detailed and convincing refutation of behaviorism given yet in philosophy.

* Times Literary Supplement *

Praise for the first edition: Strawson's inquiry explores a remarkable range of hard questions with care and insight.

-- Noam Chomsky * Philosophy and Phenomenological Research *

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Non-Fiction Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Philosophy Philosophy of The Mind History of Western Philosophy Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy Psychological Theory, Systems, Schools of Thought & Viewpoints Behavioural Theory & Behaviourism Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory

Preface	p. xi
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xv
Acknowledgment	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
A Default Position	p. 1
Experience	p. 2
The Character of Experience	p. 3
Understanding-Experience	p. 5
A Note about Dispositional Mental States	p. 13
Purely Experiential Content	p. 14
An Account of Four Seconds of Thought	p. 18
Three Questions	p. 23
Introduction	p. 23
The Mental and the Nonmental	p. 23
The Mental and the Publicly Observable	p. 25
The Mental and the Behavioral	p. 27
Neobehaviorism and Reductionism	p. 29
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind	p. 33
Conclusion: The Three Questions	p. 34
Agnostic Materialism, Part 1	p. 43
Introduction	p. 43
Monism	p. 46
The Linguistic Argument	p. 48
Materialism and M&P Monism	p. 55
A Comment on Reduction	p. 59
The Impossibility of an ôObjective Phenomenologyö	p. 62
Asymmetry and Reduction	p. 66
Equal-Status Monism	p. 72
Panpsychism	p. 75
The Inescapability of Metaphysics	p. 78
Agnostic Materialism, Part 2	p. 81
Ignorance	p. 81
Sensory Spaces	p. 82
Experience, Explanation, and Theoretical Integration	p. 84
The Hard Part of the Mind-Body Problem	p. 93
Neutral Monism and Agnostic Monism	p. 96
A Comment on Eliminativism, Instrumentalism, and So On	p. 99
Conclusion	p. 104
Mentalism, Idealism, and Immaterialism	p. 107
Introduction	p. 107
Mentalism	p. 108
Strict or Pure Process Idealism	p. 111
Active-Principle Idealism	p. 112
Stuff Idealism	p. 114
Immaterialism	p. 117
The Positions Restated	p. 120
The Dualist Options	p. 123
Summary	p. 127
Frege's Thesis	p. 129
Objections to Pure Process Idealism	p. 134
The Problem of Mental Dispositions	p. 136
'Mental'	p. 145
Introduction	p. 145
Shared Abilities?	p. 146
The Sorting Ability	p. 148
The Definition of 'Mental Being'	p. 153
Mental Phenomena	p. 158
The View That All Mental Phenomena Are Experiential Phenomena	p. 162
Natural Intentionality	p. 177
Introduction	p. 177
E/C Intentionality	p. 179
The Experienceless	p. 186
Intentionality and Abstract and Nonexistent Objects	p. 189
Experience, Purely Experiential Content, and N/C Intentionality	p. 194
Concepts in Nature	p. 198
Intentionality and Experience	p. 203
Summary with Problem	p. 208
Conclusion	p. 213
Pain and 'Pain'	p. 215
Introduction	p. 215
The Neobehaviorist View	p. 216
A Linguistic Argument for the Necessary Connection between Pain and Behavior	p. 219
A Challenge	p. 222
The Sirians	p. 226
N.N.'s Novel	p. 229
An Objection to the Sirians	p. 235
The Betelgeuzians	p. 238
The Point of the Sirians	p. 239
Functionalism, Naturalism, and Realism about Pain	p. 240
Unpleasantness and Qualitative Character	p. 247
The Weather Watchers	p. 251
Introduction	p. 251
The Rooting Story	p. 254
What Is It Like to Be a Weather Watcher?	p. 255
The Aptitudes of Mental States	p. 256
The Argument from the Conditions for Possessing the Concept of Space	p. 261
The Argument from the Conditions for Language Ability	p. 263
The Argument from the Nature of Desire	p. 264
Desire and Affect	p. 280
The Argument from the Phenomenology of Desire	p. 284
Behavior	p. 291
Introduction	p. 291
A Hopeless Definition	p. 292
Difficulties	p. 293
Other-Observability	p. 307
Neo-neobehaviorism	p. 315
The Concept of Mind	p. 317
Appendix Real Intentionality 3: Why Intentionality Entails Consciousness	p. 325
'Intentionality', 'Experience', 'Physicalism', 'Naturalism'	p. 325
'Intentionality', 'Aboutness'	p. 327
The Ubiquity of UNA	p. 331
Cognitive Experience	p. 339
The Stopping Problem	p. 344
Saving Intentional Realism (for Jerry Fodor)	p. 355
References	p. 359
Index	p. 367
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