Neither Brain nor Ghost: A Nondualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     xi
Minds, Brains, and Behavior     1
Functionalism     3
Eliminative Materialism     4
Some Cartesian Materialist Presuppositions     9
Ryle's Dispositional Psychology     11
A Rylean Alternative to Functionalist Cartesian Materialism     12
Beyond the Cranium     21
Beyond the Neuronal Mind     37
The James-Cannon Debate     37
New Data on the Relationship between the Body and Emotions/Sensations     39
Is Causation Different from Embodiment?     44
Causation and Embodiment     51
Mill's Criticism of Atomistic Causality     51
The Lure of Atomistic Causality     55
Mill's Criticism (and the Modern Defense) of Intrinsic Causal Powers     59
The Myth of the Autonomous Mind-Brain     65
Supervenience, Causation, and Embodiment     69
Experience, Sense Data, and Language: Putting Experience Back into the Environment     83
Language and Thought as Biological and Functional Categories     90
Subjective Experience and the Environment     97
Minds, Worlds, and Reality     101
The Return of the Zombies     111
Why Physiological Zombies Have Scientific Significance     113
Functional and Behavioral Zombies     115
The Roots of the Problem     117
Zombies, Experience, and Skepticism     118
The "Frame Problem" and the "Background"     135
Searle versus Dewey     141
Searle's Intrinsicality Argument     141
Searle's Darwinian Argument     146
Dennett's Darwinian Argument: Genes versus Memes     149
Dreyfus, Clark, and Conscious Experience     154
Dreams, Illusions, and Errors     161
Cartesian Materialism and the Empiricists     162
The Pragmatist Alternative     164
Bridge Laws versus New Wave Reductionism     167
The Pragmatic Answer to Eliminative Skepticism     169
Connectionist Support for Pragmatism     174
Dewey and the Dynamic Alternative     177
The Traditional View of Neural Nets     183
A Brief Introduction to DST     192
Thelen and Smith on Infant Locomotor Development     196
Freeman and the Attractor Landscape of the Olfactory Brain     199
How Animals Move     201
Dynamic Systems as Behavioral Fields     204
Notes      209
References     219
Index     227