- Publisher:
- PENGUIN
- Year of publication:
- 2024
- ISBN:
- 978-1-032-01584-2
- Pages:
- 336
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
50 PUZZLES, PARADOXES, AND THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS
TORIN ANDREW ALTER / ROBERT J. HOWELL / AMY KIND
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- Part I: Consciousness and Dualism -- Introduction -- 1 The Floating Man -- 2 Leibniz's Mill -- 3 The Disembodied Pain -- 4 The Hard Problem of Consciousness -- 5 What it's Like to be a Bat -- 6 Mary and the Black-and-White Room -- 7 Zombies -- 8 Yogis -- 9 The Coffee Tasters -- 10 The Hornswoggle Problem -- 11 The Slugs and the Tiles -- Part II: Physicalist Theories and the Metaphysics of Mind -- Introduction -- 12 The Exclusion Problem -- 13 The Puzzle of the Special Sciences -- 14 The Super-Spartans -- 15 Mad Pain and Martian Pain -- 16 The Blockhead -- 17 The Imitation Game -- 18 The Chinese Room -- 19 Eloise and the Tree -- 20 Inverted Qualia -- 21 Hempel's Dilemma -- 22 Brains within Brains -- Part III: Content, Intentionality, and Representation -- Introduction -- 23 Rabbits and Rabbit Stages -- 24 Swampman -- 25 Twin Earth and Arthritis Man -- 26 Otto's Notebook -- 27 The Brain in a Vat -- 28 Puzzling Pierre -- 29 The Shopping List -- Part IV: Perception, Imagination, and Attention -- Introduction -- 30 Molyneux's Problem -- 31 The Missing Shade of Blue -- 32 Imagining Chiliagons -- 33 Color Swatches and Speckled Hens -- 34 The Skywalk -- 35 Pine Trees and Cyrillic Text -- 36 Synesthesia -- 37 Change Blindness -- 38 Blindsight, Distracted Driving, and Pneumatic Drills -- Part V: Persons, Personal Identity, and the Self -- Introduction -- 39 The Prince and the Cobbler -- 40 The Chariot and the Candle -- 41 The Body-Swap Puzzle -- 42 Mind Uploading -- 43 The Puzzle of Too Many Minds -- 44 Split Brains and the Unity Puzzle -- 45 Sharing Feelings, Combining Minds -- 46 The Elusive Self -- 47 The Essential Indexical -- 48 The Queen and the Gametes.
