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The Churchlands and Their Critics

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The Churchlands and Their Critics
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures x
Notes on Contributors xii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
  Robert N. McCauley
 
 
Part I Essays Addressed to the Churchlands
 
15
1    Explanatory Pluralism and the Co-evolution of Theories in Science

Robert N. McCauley
 
17
2    From Neurophilosophy to Neurocomputation: Searching for the Cognitive Forest

Patricia Kitcher
 
48
3    Dealing in Futures: Folk Psychology and the Role of Representations in Cognitive Science

Andy Clark
 
86
4    Paul Churchland’s PDP Approach to Explanation

William G. Lycan
 
104
5    What Should a Connectionist Philosophy of Science Look Like?

William Bechtel
 
121
6    Paul Churchland and State Space Semantics

Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore
 
145
  Reply to Churchland

Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore
 
159
7    Images and Subjectivity: Neurobiological Trials and Tribulations

William G. Lycan
 
163
8    The Furniture of Mind: A Yard of Hope, a Ton of Terror?

John Marshall and Jennifer Gurd
 
176
9    The Moral Network

Owen Flanagan
 
192
Part II Replies from the Churchlands
 
217
A—The Future of Psychology, Folk and Scientific   
 
219
10    McCauley’s Demand for a Co-level Competitor
 
222
11    Connectionism as Psychology
 
232
12    Kitcher’s Empirical Challenge: Has There Been Progress in Neurophilosophy?
 
239
13    Clark’s Connectionist Defense of Folk Psychology
 
250
B—The Impact of Neural Network Models on the Philosophy of Science
 
256
14    On the Nature of Explanation: William Lycan
 
257
15    Bechtel on the Proper Form of a Connectionist Philosophy of Science
 
265
C—Semantics in a New Vein 271
16    Fodor and Lepore: State-Space Semantics and Meaning Holism
 
272
17    Second Reply to Fodor and Lepore
 
274
D—Consciousness and Methodology 284
18    Neuropsychology and Brain Organization: The Damasios
 
285
19    Conceptual Analysis and Neuropsychology: John Marshall and Jennifer Gurd
 
290
20    Do We Propose to Eliminate Consciousness?
 
297
E—Moral Psychology and the Rebirth of Moral Theory 301
21    Flanagan on Moral Knowledge
 
302
Index
 
  311

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