Philosophy of Mind

Dale Jacquette is Senior Professorial Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is the author of The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (Acumen, 2005), Pathways in Philosophy (OUP, 2004), Ontology (Acumen, 2002) and Six Philosophical Appetizers (McGraw-Hill, 2001), and editor of Philosophy of Logic (Elsevier, 2007), The Cambridge Companion to Brentano (CUP, 2004) and A Companion to Philosophical Logic (Blackwell, 2002).

"Dale Jacquette provides, in this much-expanded, much-reworked second edition of his 1994 Philosophy of Mind, an unusually helpful, clear, user-friendly compendium of the present state of play of the literature and treatment of the metaphysics of consciousness within the bounds of analytic philosophy. His book may well prove to be the most serviceable general introduction to the principal problems, arguments, theoretical options, and notable contributors to the field that one could possibly ask for. He puts an absolutely sprawling mountain of conceptual analysis into the simplest legible order. The discussion is remarkably straightforward, brief, to the point, very reliably informed, and generous in its coverage." - Joseph Margolis, Temple University, USA

• Preface; Introduction: The Ontology of Mind; 1. Dualisms of Mental and Physical Phenomena; 2. Elimination and Reduction Strategies for the Concept of Mind: Behaviorism, Materialism, Functionalism; 3. Artificial Intelligence: Mechanism, Minds and Machines; 4. Intentionality and the Nature of Thought; 5. Qualia, Consciousness and Intentionality; 6. Metaphysics of Mental Causation; 7. Analysis of Collective Intentionality and the Concept of Social Institutions; 8. The Dignity of Mind; Afterword: The Challenge of Intentionalism; Further Reading.