Contents

pp vii-viii

Preface to the English edition

pp ix-xii

The enigma of the mind

pp xiii-xiv

The enigma of the mind: Introduction to a metaphor

pp 1-29

1 - Toward a physical science of the mental: Feigl and the (re-)construction of the ‘mind–body problem’

pp 30-60

2 - The apogee of physicalism: The identity theory and materialism in the Australian school

pp 61-104

3 - The obscure relationship: Problems and debates surrounding the identity theory

pp 105-117

4 - Psychology as alchemy: The elimination of the mental in the ‘disappearance theory’

pp 118-129

5 - The mind as function: The functionalist approach to the mind–body problem

pp 130-152

6 - The mind as property and as event: The ‘reformist’ neo-identityism of Kim and Davidson

pp 153-175

7 - The mind as language: The linguistic turn in the mind–body problem

pp 176-194

8 - Speaking in many different ways: The pluralization of descriptions and explanations in the MBP

pp 195-205

9 - The mind as a mode of subjective experience: An interpretive model of the features of the mental

pp 206-235

10 - The mind as ‘subject’ and as ‘being-in-the-world’: Toward a non-mentalistic interpretation of the mental

pp 236-266

Appendix - The mental as intentional/‘personal’ emergence: The psycho-personological perspective of Joseph Margolis

pp 267-282

Bibliography

pp 283-316

Name index

pp 317-319