Content and Consciousness Revisited: With Replies by Daniel Dennett (Studies in Brain and Mind Book 7)

"What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary environments? Is there a difference between personal and sub-personal level processes in the brain? Answers to these and other questions were developed in Daniel Dennett's first book, Content and Consciousness (1969), where he sketched a unified theoretical framework for views that are now considered foundational in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Content and Consciousness Revisited is devoted to reconsider the ideas and ideals introduced in Dennett's seminal book, by covering its fundamental concepts, hypotheses and approaches, and taking into account the findings and progress which have taken place during more than four decades. This book includes original and critical contributions about the relations between science and philosophy, the personal/sub-personal level distinction, intelligence, learning, intentionality, rationality, propositional attitudes, among other issues of scientific and philosophical interest. Each chapter embraces an updated approach to several disciplines, like cognitive science, cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive psychiatry." -- Back cover Cover Title Page Copyright Foreword: Writing Content and Consciousness Acknowledgments Contents List of Contributors About the Contributors 1. Introduction: Bringing Together Mind, Behavior, and Evolution (Carlos Muñoz-Suárez) 1.1 Seven Seeds 1.1.1 A Forerunner of the Intentional Stance 1.1.2 A Motivation for Evolutionary Naturalism 1.1.3 Learning as Intra-Cerebral Evolution 1.1.4 The First Teleofunctional Theory of Content 1.1.5 The Personal/Sub-personal Distinction 1.1.6 Explaining Introspective Certainty in Terms of Logical States of the Cerebral Computer 1.1.7 A Pioneering Critique of Pictorial Models of Imagination 1.2 A Sea of Prolific Works 1.3 On This Book References 2. A Most Rare Achievement: Dennett’s Scientific Discovery in Content and Consciousness (Don Ross) 2.1 Introduction 2.2 C&C in the History of Cognitive Science 2.3 Instrumentalism and Realism 2.4 Useful Philosophy and the Unification of Sciences 2.5 Dennett and the Role of Philosophy 2.6 C&C as Philosophy and as Science 2.7 Conclusion References 3. What Was I Thinking? Dennett’s Content and Consciousness and the Reality of Propositional Attitudes (Felipe De Brigar) 3.1 The Success to Truth Argument 3.2 The Persistence of Folk Psychology 3.3 There May Not Be Beliefs After All 3.4 Dennett’s ‘Prefutation’ in C&C References 4. Dennett’s Dual-Process Theory of Reasoning (Keith Frankish) 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Dual-Process Theories 4.3 Dennett 1969 on Thinking 4.4 Dennett 1991 on the Conscious Mind 4.5 Connections, Attractions, and Implications 4.6 From Dual Processes to Dual Attitudes 4.7 Conclusion References 5. The Rationality Assumption (Richard Dub) 5.1 Forefathers 5.2 The Quinean Lineage 5.3 Types of Ascription 5.4 Undoing the Quinean Lineage 5.5 The Rylean Lineage 5.6 Undoing the Rylean Lineage 5.7 Preserving Intentional Systems Theory References 6. Dennett’s Personal/Subpersonal Distinction in the Light of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry (Sam Wilkinson) 6.1 Introducing Dennett’s Distinction 6.2 Dennett’s Early Distinction 6.3 The Later Version and the Intentional Stance 6.4 The Personal/Subpersonal Distinction and Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 6.5 Troubled Persons or Broken Intentional Systems? 6.6 Conclusion References 7. I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes: The Personal, the Sub-personal, and the Extended (Martin Roth) 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Legacy of Ryle and the Birth of the Personal/ Sub-­personal Distinction 7.3 How to Make Yourself Large 7.4 Conclusion References 8. Learning Our Way to Intelligence: Reflections on Dennett and Appropriateness (Ellen Fridland) 8.1 The Goal 8.1.1 Learning: A Working Definition 8.2 The Features 8.2.1 Flexibility 8.2.2 Transferability 8.2.3 Manipulability 8.2.4 Appropriateness 8.3 The Learning Condition: Past and Future 8.4 An Objection and an Opportunity References 9. The Intentional Stance and Cultural Learning: A Developmental Feedback Loop 9.1 Introduction 9.2 The Intentional Stance 9.3 The Intentional Stance in Early Infancy 9.4 The Intentional Stance and Cultural Learning 9.5 Cultural Learning and the Reliability of the Intentional Stance 9.6 The Reference of Intentional Terms 9.7 Evolution, Development and Rationality 9.8 Conclusions References 10. Conscious-State Anti-realism (John Michael) 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Anti-realism, Consciousness, and FPO 10.2.1 Clarifying Consciousness Anti-realism 10.2.2 The Orwellian/Stalinesque Argument for FPO 10.3 HOT Orwellian and HOT Stalinesque Scenarios 10.4 Non-relational HOT Theory and FPO References 11. Not Just a Fine Trip Down Memory Lane: Comments on the Essays on Content and Consciousness (Daniel Dennett) References What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary environments? Is there a difference between personal and sub-personal level processes in the brain? Answers to these and other questions were developed in Daniel Dennett s first book, "Content and Consciousness" (1969), where he sketched a unified theoretical framework for views that are now considered foundational in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. "Content and Consciousness Revisited "is devoted to reconsider the ideas and ideals introduced in Dennett s seminal book, by covering its fundamental concepts, hypotheses and approaches and taking into account the findings and progress which have taken place during more than four decades. This book includes original and critical contributions about the relations between science and philosophy, the personal/sub-personal level distinction, intelligence, learning, intentionality, rationality, propositional attitudes, among other issues of scientific and philosophical interest. Each chapter embraces an updated approach to several disciplines, like cognitive science, cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind and cognitive psychiatry."