Chapter Four: The Mind-Body Problem

Section One	The Traditional Mind-Body Problem
Section Two	Dualism and Materialism: Arguments and Objections
Section Three	Dualism and the Relationship Problem
Section Four	The Problem of Other Minds
Section Five	Materialism Attempts to Expose the Cartesian Myth
Section Six	Functionalism
Section Seven	Dualism or Materialism?
Section Eight	Personal Identity
	Suggested Readings

SUGGESTED READINGS

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Block, Ned. "What is Functionalism?" Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology, Vols. I and II. Ed. Ned Block. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.

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Churchland, Paul. Matter and Consciousness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Dennett, Daniel. "Skinner Skinned." Brainstorms. Montgomery, VT: Bradford Books, 1978. . "Where Am I?" Brainstorms. Montgomery, VT: Bradford Books, 1978.

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Jackson, Frank. "Epiphenomenal Qualia." Philosophical Quarterly 32 (1982).

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Leibniz, Gottfried. "The Monadology" (section 17). Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Philosophical Papers and Letters. Ed. L. Loemker. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1969.

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Perry, John. A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1978.

Reid, Thomas. Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man. 1785. Essay III, Chapter 4.

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Searle, John. "Minds, Brains and Programs." The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1980).

Shaffer, Jerome. Philosophy of Mind. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968. Skinner, B. F. Science and Human Behavior. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1953.

Smart, J. J. C. "Sensations and Brain Processes." The Philosophical Review 68 (1959).