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 Intelligence
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	1. Circular; needs desires to explain beliefs, and conversely. 2. Can't do the conditionals. 3. Leaves out causation1.
   Type identity theory	Leaves out the mind: or else it leads to property dualism	1. Neural chauvinism. 2. Leibniz's law2. 3. Can't account for mental properties. 4. Modal3 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	Disjunction problem

10. The Idols of the Tribe