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Contents

J.B. Watson : An excerpt from "Talking and thinking"
Rudolf Carnap : An excerpt from "psychology in physical language"
U.T. Place : Is consciousness a brain process?
D.M. Armstrong : The causal theory of the mind
Hilary Putnam : The nature of mental states

Daniel C. Dennett : Why the Law of Effect will not go away
William G. Lycan : The continuity of levels of nature
Elliot Sober : Putting the function back into functionalism
Robert Van Gulick : Functionalism, information and content
Fred Dretske : Misrepresentation

Daniel C. Dennett : True believers : the intentional strategy and why
	it works
Stephen P. Stich : Dennett on intentional systems
Daniel C. Dennett. Mental events and the brain

Paul K. Feyerabend : Making sense of ourselves
Paul M. Churchland : Eliminative materialism and the propositional attitudes
Patricia Smith Churchland and Terrence J. Sejnowski : Neural representation
	and neural computation
William Bechtel : Connectionism and the philosophy of mind : an overview

Jerry A. Fodor : Why there still has to be a language of thought
Paul M. Churchland and Patricia Smith Churchland : Stalking the wild
	epistemic engine
Jerry A. Fodor : Psychosematics, or : where do truth conditions come from?

Stephen P. Stich : Autonomous psychology and the belief-desire thesis
Stephen P. Stich : An excerpt from "The syntactic theory of mind"
Michael Devitt. Folk psychology is here to stay
Terence Horgan and James Woodward : A narrow representational theory
	of the mind
Jerry A. Fodor : Banish discontent

Ned Block : An excerpt from "Troubles with functionalism"
Frank Jackson : Epiphenomenal qualia
Janet Levin : Could love be like a heatwave? : physicalism and the
	subjective character of experience
Laurence Nemirow : Physicalism and the cognitive role of aquaintance
David Lewis : What experience teaches
Daniel C. Dennett : Quining qualia

C.L. Hardin : Color and illusion
Keith Campbell : The implications of Land's theory of color vision
Ned Block : Mental pictures and cognitive science
Kim Sterelny : The imagery debate
Noam Chomsky. Modeling language development
David Lightfoot : On the nature, use and acquisition of language
John Haugeland. : Understanding natural language