Matter of the Mind

Maurice Schouten is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tilburg. He is co-author of research articles in Theory & Psychology, New Ideas in Psychology, Zygon, Philosophical Psychology, Synthese, and the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Huib Looren de Jong is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of Naturalism and Psychology (1992) and Theoretical Issues in Psychology (2006, with Sacha Bem), and a number of research articles. He serves as Associate Editor of Theory & Psychology.

“The Matter of the Mind is a well organized book which hosts contributions on the main subjects about philosophy of mind and it is definitely worthwhile reading.”  (Metapsychology, 14 May 2013)

• Contributors vii Preface and Acknowledgments ix1 Mind Matters: The Roots of Reductionism 1Maurice Schouten and Huib Looren de JongPart I Metaphysics of Science 292 Functionalism and Psychological Reductionism: Friends, Not Foes 31Andrew Melnyk3 Some Metaphysical Anxieties of Reductionism 51Thomas W. Polger4 The Metaphysics of Mechanisms and the Challenge of the New Reductionism 76Carl Gillett5 Reductionism, Embodiment, and the Generality of Psychology 101Lawrence A. ShapiroPart II Philosophical Accounts of Reductionism, Mechanism, and Co-evolution 1216 Reduction without the Structures 123Robert C. Richardson7 Reinforcing the Three “R”s: Reduction, Reception, and Replacement 146Ronald Endicott8 Reducing Psychology while Maintaining its Autonomy via Mechanistic Explanations 172William Bechtel9 Enriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations: Incorporating Diachronic Theories 199Robert N. McCauleyPart III Mechanisms of Mind 22510 Coupling, Emergence, and Explanation 227Andy Clark11 Is Psychological Explanation Going Extinct? 249Cory D. Wright12 Who Says You Can’t Do a Molecular Biology of Consciousness? 275John Bickle13 Mind Reading and Mirror Neurons: Exploring Reduction 298Huib Looren de Jong and Maurice SchoutenName Index 323Subject Index 326