| Preface
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| Acknowledgments | xiii |
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| 1 | Thoughts about the Mind: Past, Present, and Future | 1 |
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| 1.1 | Philosophy, the Mind, and the Mechanical Worldview | 1 |
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| 1.2 | The History of the Science(s) of the Mind | 5 |
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| 1.3 | Philosophy and Cognitive Science | 35 |
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| 2 | Folk Psychology and Cognitive Science | 43 |
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| 2.1 | Introduction | 43 |
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| 2.2 | The Gauntlet of Irrealism | 44 |
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| 2.3 | Archaic Presuppositions | 50 |
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| 2.4 | Schematic Models | 52 |
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| 2.5 | The Gauntlet Revisited | 63 |
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| 2.6 | Cognitive Science and the Landscape of Competing Research Programs | 69 |
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| 2.7 | Conclusion | 75 |
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| 2.8 | Postscript: A Confession | 76 |
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| 3 | Content, Supervenience, and Cognitive Science | 77 |
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| 3.1 | Introduction | 77 |
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| 3.2 | Ramifications for Folk Psychology | 78 |
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| 3.3 | An Argument for the Wideness of Contents | 78 |
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| 3.4 | A Digression on Supervenience | 79 |
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| 3.5 | What Twin-Earth Thought Experiments Demonstrate | 82 |
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| 3.6 | Ahistorical Determinants of Content | 83 |
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| 3.7 | Externalism without Twins | 88 |
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| 3.8 | The Planning Model | 90 |
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| 3.9 | The Problem of Causal Impotence | 97 |
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| 3.10 | Recap | 106 |
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| 4 | Dueling Metaphors | 107 |
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| 4.1 | Introduction | 107 |
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| 4.2 | Metaphors and Mechanisms in Cognitive Science | 108 |
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| 4.3 | The Logic Metaphor | 109 |
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| 4.4 | The Scale-Model Metaphor | 121 |
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| 4.5 | A Diagnosis for the Frame Problem | 127 |
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| 5 | Thinking in its Entirety | 133 |
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| 5.1 | Introduction | 133 |
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| 5.2 | Traditional Philosophical Objections | 134 |
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| 5.3 | Reasoning and Representation | 153 |
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| 5.4 | Conclusion | 166 |
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| 6 | From Metaphor to Mechanism | 167 |
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| 6.2 | Introduction | 167 |
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| 6.2 | From Logic Metaphor to Logic Mechanism | 169 |
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| 6.3 | A Dilemma | 177 |
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| 6.4 | Intrinsic Computational Representations | 177 |
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| 6.5 | The Intrinsic-Cognitive-Models Hypothesis | 192 |
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| 6.6 | Conclusion | 198 |
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| 7 | Models of Explanation | 199 |
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| 7.1 | Introduction | 199 |
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| 7.2 | Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Science | 199 |
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| 7.3 | The Deductive-Nomological Model | 203 |
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| 7.4 | Proposed Alternatives to the D-N Model | 218 |
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| 8 | The Model Model | 225 |
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| 8.1 | Introduction | 225 |
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| 8.2 | Basic Tenets of the Model Model | 226 |
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| 8.3 | Solving the Difficult Problems | 229 |
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| 8.4 | The D-N Model: A Parting Shot | 252 |
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| 9 | Mind and World | 255 |
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| 9.1 | Introduction | 255 |
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| 9.2 | Kant and Synthetic A Priori Knowledge of Geometry | 258 |
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| 9.3 | A Return to Models? | 271 |
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| Notes | 277 |
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| References | 303 |
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| Index
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