The Logic of Mind

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Content: I / Introduction.- 1. The Revival of Mental Philosophy.- 2. Mechanism.- 3. Naturalism.- 4. Two Problems of Mind.- II / What Is a Rule of Mind?.- 1. Signals and Control.- 2. Turing Machines.- 3. Logic and Logic of Mind.- 4. Nerve Networks and Finite Automata.- 5. Computer Logic.- 6. Glimpses from Psychology.- 7. Summary on Rules.- III / Behavior and Structure.- 1. Some Varieties of Automata.- 2. Fitting and Guiding.- 3. Empirical Realism.- IV / Mechanism - Arguments PRO and CON.- 1. Thinking Machines.- 2. The Argument from Analogy.- 3. Psychological Explanation and Church's Thesis.- 4. On the Dissimilarity of Behaviors.- 5. Computers, Determinism, and Action.- 6. Summary to the Main Argument from Analogy.- V / Functionalism, Rationalism, and Cognitivism.- 1. Psychological and Automaton States.- 2. Behaviorism.- 3. Neorationalism.- 4. Cognitivism.- VI / The Logic of Acceptance.- 1. Universals, Gestalten, and Taking.- 2. Acceptance.- 3. Expectation.- 4. Family Resemblances.- VII / Perception.- 1. Perceptual Objects.- 2. Perception Perspectives.- VIII / Belief and Desire.- 1. Perceptual Belief.- 2. Desire.- 3. A Model of Desire.- 4. Standing Belief - Representation.- IX / Reference and Truth.- 1. Pure Semantics versus User Semantics.- 2. Belief Sentences.- 3. Denotation.- 4. A Theory of Truth.- 5. Adequacy.- X / Toward Meaning.- 1. Linguistic Meaning.- 2. Propositions.- 3. Intensions of Names and Predicates.- XI / Psychological Theory and the Mindbrain Problem.- 1. Realism and Reduction.- 2. Explanation.- 3. Free Will.- 4. Mental Occurrents.- Table of Figures, Formulas, and Tables.- Notes.