Table of Contents

• • List of contributors
  • Preface
  • 1    Two Cartesian Arguments for the Simplicity of the Soul    15
  • 2    The Soul    30
  • 3    The Problem of Psychophysical Causation    49
  • 4    Lonely Souls: Causality and Substance Dualism    65
  • 5    The General Form of the Argument for Berkeleian Idealism    81
  • 6    Sensations and Brain Processes and Postscript    121
  • 7    Naming and Necessity    138
  • 8    Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction    159
  • 9    The Story of a Brain    185
  • 10    Reduction of Mind    197
  • 11    The Nature of Mental States    210
  • 12    Troubles with Functionalism    222
  • 13    Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia    234
  • 14    Meaning and the World Order    271
  • 15    Representational Systems    304
  • 16    Minds, Brains, and Programs    332
  • 17    Thought and Talk    355
  • 18    True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works    370
  • 19    Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes    391
  • 20    Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap    427
  • 21    Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?    438
  • 22    What Mary Didn't Know    458
  • 23    What Experience Teaches    467
  • 24    The Intrinsic Quality of Experience    491
  • 25    Brute Experience    510
  • 26    Emergent Dualism    525
  • 27    The Grain Problem    542
  • 28    The Mystery of the Physical and the Matter of Qualities: A Paper for Professor Shaffer    560
  • Index    591