The Peripheral Mind

István Aranyosi was born in Sighet/Máramarossziget, in the north of Transylvania, in 1975. He studied philosophy in Budapest, at the Central European University, where he obtained his PhD in 2005. In 2006-2007 he was a fellow at the Centre for Consciousness, The Australian National University. He is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bilkent University, Ankara. In 2012 he obtained Honorable Mention for his essay "A new argument for mind-brain identity" at the American Philosophical Association's prestigious biennial Article Prize.

Preface and Acknowledgments ; Chapter I: Margins of Me: a Personal Story ; PART 1: MINDS AND NERVES ; Chapter II: A Philosophical Hypothesis ; II.1 PMH as a philosophical hypothesis ; II.2 PMH and the case of visual awareness research ; II.3 Causal versus constitutive contribution ; Chapter III: Return of the C fibers, or Philosophers' Lack of Nerve ; III.1 Well, maybe the mind is the brain ... somewhere ; III.2 Folk neuroscience and the philosophy of mind ; III.3 Nervous systems and closet sunsum theory ; Chapter IV: Toward a Well-Innervated Philosophy of Mind ; IV.1 'It's just cables!' ; IV.2 Functionalist troubles? ; The mad pain problem ; The problem of pseudo-normal vision ; The China-brain problem ; The triviality problem ; PART 2: BOUNDS OF MIND ; Chapter V: Semantic Externalism ; V.1 Twin Earth ; V.2 Anti-Narrowness and Determination ; V.3 Anti-wideness ; V.4 Skinternalism: an Anti-Internalist Individualism ; V.5 Some further issues ; Chapter VI: Mind Extended ; VI.1 Allegedly extended processes ; VI.2 Allegedly extended states ; PART 3: MIND EMBODIED ; Chapter VII: Embodiment and the Peripheral Mind ; VII.1 'Fingers crossed for the embodied mind!' ; VII.2 Phenomenal embodiment and innervation ; VII.3 Against proper disembodiment ; Chapter VIII: Against Action as Constitutive of Mind ; VIII.1 Embodied central processing ; VIII.2 The conceptual role of the Neuromuscular Junction ; VIII. 3 A brief critique of action-based (sensorimotor) theories ; PART 4: MIND AND ETHICS ; Chapter IX: Issues in Neuroethics ; IX.1 Abortion: Thick potentiality ; IX.2 Amputation: Peripheral precedence ; Chapter X: Concluding Remarks ; References ; Name Index ; Topic Index