Theo Todman's Web Page - Paper Abstracts

Sections

1. The Mystery of Materialism
2. Behaviorism
3. Type Identity Theories
4. Token-Token Identity Theories
5. Black Box Functionalism
6. Strong Artificial Intelligence¹
7. Elliminative Materialism
8. Naturalising Content
9. The Moral So Far: Table 2.1 The General Pattern Exhibited by Recent Materialism

   Theory	Common-Sense Objections	Technical Objections
   Logical behaviorism	Leaves out the mind: super-spartan / super-actor objections	Circular; needs desires to explain beliefs, and conversely. Can't do the conditionals. Leaves out causation2.
   Type identity theory	Leaves out the mind: or else it leads to property dualism	Neural chauvinism. Leibniz's law3. Can't account for mental properties. Modal4 arguments
   Token identity theory	Leaves out the mind: absent qualia	Can't identify the mental features of mental content
   Black box functionalism	Leaves out the mind: absent qualia and spectrum inversion	Relation of structure and function is unexplained
   Strong Al (Turing machine functionalism)	Leaves out the mind: Chinese room	Human cognition is nonrepresentational and therefore noncomputational
   Eliminative materialism (rejection of folk psychology)	Denies the existence of the mind: unfair to folk psychology	Defense of folk psychology
   Naturalizing intentionality	Leaves out intentionality	Disjunction5 problem

10. The Idols of the Tribe