| What is it to be capable of thoughts about an objective world? What is involved in the unity of consciousness? How is the ability to attribute attitudes to other persons to be understood? The three symposia in this volume develop new approaches to these central questions in the philosophy of mind. The contributors include leading philosophers of the middle and younger generation working in Britain. All the issues discussed have an interdisciplinary dimension, and each symposium contains a contribution from a noted psychologist working in the same field. The volume is of interest not only to philosophers of mind, but also to those concerned with metaphysics, epistemology, developmental psychology, animal psychology and the nature of consciousness.
The volume is edited by Christopher Peacocke, Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy.
The papers arise from a conference on ‘Philosophy of Mind’ held at the Academy in March 1993. Each of the three symposia began with a Philosophical Lecture. | CONTENTS | | • | Notes on Contributors | | | • | Preface | | | • | Christopher Peacocke, Introduction: The Issues and their Further Development | | | • | John Campbell, Objects and Objectivity | | | • | Bill Brewer, Thoughts about Objects, Places and Times | | | • | John O'Keefe, Cognitive Maps, Time and Causality | | | II | OBJECTIVITY AND THE UNITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS | | | • | Susan Hurley, Unity and Objectivity | | | • | Anthony Marcel, What is Relevant to the Unity of Consciousness? | | | • | Michael Lockwood, Issues of Unity and Objectivity | | | III | UNDERSTANDING THE MENTAL: THEORY OR SIMULATION | | | • | MARTIN DAVIES, The Mental Simulation Debate | | | • | Jane Heal, Simulation vs. Theory Theory: What is at Issue? | | | • | Josef Perner, The Necessity and Impossibility of Simulation | |
