Acknowledgments

  1. “Intentional Systems” is reprinted from Journal of Philosophy, LXVIII, 4 (1971): 87–106 with permission of the editors. Earlier drafts were presented at Princeton and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, December, 1970.
  2. “Reply to Arbib and Gunderson” has not been previously published, but an abstract appears in Journal of Philosophy, LXIX, 18 (1972): 604, following the papers by Arbib and Gunderson. It was presented at a symposium on Content and Consciousness at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, December, 1972.
  3. “Brain Writing and Mind Reading” is reprinted with permission of the University of Minnesota Press from Keith Gunderson, ed., Language, Mind, and Knowledge, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science VII (1975). Earlier drafts were presented at Tufts, the University of Maine, and the Cincinnati Colloquium on Mind and Brain, November, 1971.
  4. “Skinner Skinned” has not been previously published. Earlier versions were presented at Tuskegee Institute, March, 1972; University of Tennessee, November, 1973; Western Michigan University, December, 1974; Lycoming College, November, 1975; and as one of my Taft Lectures at the University of Cincinnati, February, 1978.
  5. “Why the Law of Effect Will Not Go Away” is reprinted with permission of the editors from the Journal of the Theory of Social Behavior, V, 2 (1975): 169–87. It was first presented at the first meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, at M.I.T. in October, 1974. Subsequent drafts were presented at UCLA, Brigham Young University, Lycoming College, and the Harvard Society for Fellows in Law and Humanities.
  6. “A Cure for the Common Code?” is reprinted with the permission of the editors from Mind (April, 1977), where it was titled simply “Critical Notice: The Language of Thought by Jerry Fodor.” Under its present title it circulated in typescript during 1976.
  7. “Artificial Intelligence as Philosophy and as Psychology” is reprinted with the permission of Humanities Press and Harvester Press from Martin Ringle, ed., Philosophical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence (New York: Humanities Press and Harvester Press, 1978). Earlier drafts were presented at Carnegie Mellon University; SUNY New Paltz Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy (organized by the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Mind), March, 1977; Hampshire College, March, 1977; the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, April, 1977; University of Alberta, November, 1977; Simon Fraser University, November, 1977; University of Calgary, November, 1977; Rutgers University, March, 1978.
  8. “Are Dreams Experiences?” is reprinted with permission of the editors from Philosophical Review, LXXIII (April, 1976): 151–171. Earlier drafts were presented at Harvard, February, 1975; U.C. Irvine, March, 1975; Brigham Young University, March, 1975; University of Cincinnati, May, 1975; Vassar College, November, 1975; Lycoming College, November, 1975. It is also reprinted in Charles Dunlop, ed., Philosophical Essays on Dreaming, Cornell Univ. Press, 1977.
  9. “Toward a Cognitive Theory of Consciousness” is reprinted with permission of the University of Minnesota Press from C. Wade Savage, ed., Perception and Cognition: Issues in the Foundations of Psychology, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, IX (1978). It was first presented at the Conference on Perception, Cognition, Knowledge and Mind at the University of Minnesota, June, 1975. Subsequent drafts were presented at Cornell University, December, 1975; and at SUNY Binghamton, February, 1976.
  10. “Two Approaches to Mental Images” has not been previously published. It was first presented at the Western Canadian Philosophical Association at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, October, 1977, and subsequently at the University of Victoria, November, 1977; University of British Columbia, November, 1977; University of Washington, November, 1977, and Brown, December, 1977. A revised version was presented as one of my Taft Lectures at the University of Cincinnati, February, 1978; Sloan Foundation Workshop on Mental Representation, M.I.T., January, 1978; University of Virginia, February, 1978; Columbia University, March, 1978, and the University of Alabama, April, 1978.
  11. “Why You Can’t Make a Computer That Feels Pain” is reprinted with permission of D. Reidel Publishing Company from Synthese, XXXVIII, 3 (July, 1978). Early drafts were presented at the University of Chicago, February, 1974; Western Michigan University, December, 1974, and Boston University, December, 1976.
  12. “Mechanism and Responsibility” is reprinted with permission from Ted Honderich, ed., Essays on Freedom of Action (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973). A draft was presented at Yale University, December, 1971.
  13. “The Abilities of Men and Machines” has not been previously published. An Abstract appeared in Journal of Philosophy, LXVII, 20 (1970): 835. It was presented at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, December, 1970.
  14. “Conditions of Personhood” is reprinted with permission from Amelie O. Rorty, ed., The Identities of Persons (University of California Press, 1976). Earlier drafts were presented at the University of Pittsburgh, April, 1972; University of Connecticut, April, 1972; Wellesley College, November, 1972; Harvard University, December, 1972; Rockefeller University, March, 1973, and Temple University, March, 1973.
  15. “On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want” has not been previously published. Earlier drafts were presented at Princeton University, March, 1976, and Williams College, April, 1976.
  16. “How to Change Your Mind” has not been previously published. It was presented as a reply to Annette Baier at the Chapel Hill Colloquium, October, 1977.
  17. “Where Am I?” has not been previously published. It was presented first at the Chapel Hill Colloquium, October, 1976, and subsequently at M.I.T., in December, 1976, and at the University of Alabama, April, 1978.
  18. The passage on pp. 71–72 from The Machinery of the Brain, by Dean Wooldridge, Copyright 1963, McGraw Hill, used with permission of the McGraw Hill Book Company.
  19. The illustrations on pp. 130–132 from Artificial Paranoia, by Kenneth Colby, used with permission of Pergamon Press Ltd.
  20. The illustration on p. 182 used with permission of Roger Shepard.