On the Contrary

Paul M. Churchland is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. His the author of The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul (MIT Press), Neurophilosophy at Work, and several other books. Patricia Smith Churchland is UC President's Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute.

Part 1 Folk psychology and eliminative materialism: folk psychology, Paul M. Churchland; theory, taxonomy, and methodology - a reply to Haldane's "Understanding Folk", Paul M. Churchland; evaluating our self-conception, Paul M. Churchland; activation vectors versus propositional attitudes - how the brain represents reality, Paul M. Churchland. Part 2 Meaning, Qualia, and emotion - the several dimensions of consciousness: could a machine think? Paul M. Churchland, Patricia S. Churchland; intertheoretic reduction - a neuroscientist's filed guide, Paul M. Churchland, Patricia S. Churchland; conceptual similarity across sensory and neural diversity - the Fodor-Lepore challenge answered, Paul M. Churchland; Betty Crocker's theory of consciousness, Paul M. Churchland; the rediscovery of light, Paul M. Churchland; knowing Qualia - a reply to Jackson, Paul M. Churchland; recent work on consciousness -philosophical, theoretical, and empirical, Paul M. Churchland, Patricia S. Churchland; filling in - why Dennett is wrong, Patricia S. Churchland, V.S. Ramachandran; gaps in Penrose's toilings, Rick Grush, Patricia S. Churchland; feeling reasons, Patricia S. Churchland. Part 3 The philosophy of science: a deeper unity - some Feyerabendian themes in neurocomputational form, Paul M. Churchland; reply to Glymour, Paul M. Churchland; to transform the phenomena - Feyerabend, proliferation, and recurrent neural networks, Paul M. Churchland; how parapsychology could become a science. Paul M. Churchland.