Table of contents
Foreword
ix
Acknowledgements
xv
Chapter 1.A materialist theory of the mind
1
Chapter 2.Naïve materialism
7
2.1The standard view
11
2.2The digestive model of the mind
14
2.3The hallucinatory model of perception
17
2.4Physiological minds and mechanical worlds
21
2.5The object – object problem
23
2.6Inner man and inner world
25
2.7Am I my body?
27
Chapter 3.Consciousness and nature
31
3.1Neural local supervenience and internalism
34
3.2Brains in a vat are no starters
35
3.3Misperception by and large
37
3.4Mental and physical are different
39
3.5The issue of representation and the vehicle/content dichotomy
42
3.6Appearance vs reality
43
Chapter 4.A mind-object identity theory
45
4.1Identity theories and consciousness
46
4.2
brainbound
48
4.3
objectbound
50
4.4Where am I?
52
4.5Mind and world
55
4.6The inner world is outside
57
4.7Linguistic boobytraps
60
4.8There’s no distance between experience and world
63
Chapter 5.The actual object
67
5.1Actual objects vs naïve objects
70
5.2Existence and causation
74
5.3The joint cause
77
5.4Relative existence
80
5.5Bodies are object-makers
83
5.6Actual objects and time
87
5.7A hoard of actual objects
90
5.8Spatiotemporal objects
93
Chapter 6.Consciousness, body, and world
95
6.1The actual world
98
6.2Brains are never isolated
101
6.3Causal carvings
103
6.4Temporal unfolding
107
6.5Causal simultaneity
110
6.6Present and past are relative
115
6.7Time lag debunked
119
Chapter 7.All experience is identity
121
7.1Modes of perception
125
7.2A taxonomy for hallucinations
128
7.3Hallucinations and dreams
132
7.4Identity and hallucination
138
7.5The common-kind assumption turned upside down
142
7.6Illusions
145
Chapter 8.Neuroscientific evidence
149
8.1Penfield and direct brain stimulation
152
8.2Congenitally blind subjects and visual experience
154
8.3Hallucinations caused by sensory blockage
157
8.4Persisting objects
161
8.5Filtering the world: The case of afterimages
163
8.6Supersaturated red and other impossible colors
170
Chapter 9.Subjectivity reloaded
173
9.1Is the phenomenal physical?
175
9.2One kind of property to rule them all
178
9.3Subjective and objective are relative
181
9.4Measurement and causality
187
9.5Experience and knowledge
188
9.6Perceptual error
190
9.7Incorrigibility
193
9.8Feeling vs functioning
195
Chapter 10.A reduction
197
10.1The hard problem
198
10.2Intentionality or aboutness
201
10.3What it is like to be something
203
10.4Points of view and perspectivalness
205
10.5Semantics is identity
208
Chapter 11.A comparison with other views
211
11.1Idealism
212
11.2Enactivism
213
11.3Direct realism
216
11.4Russellian monism
218
11.5Panpsychism
220
11.6Soul-less Descartes
221
Chapter 12.The last blow to the narcissism of man
223
In a nutshell
231
References
233
Index
251
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