CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Preface

    1. The Invention of the Mind (Plato)

    2. Body and Mind (Aristotle)

    3. The Division of Mind and Body (Saint Augustine)

    4. The Imprisonment of the Mind (Descartes)

    5. The Law of Specific Nerve Energies (Müller)

    6. The Re-emergence of the Mind

    7. The Evolution of Altruism and Self-Control

    8. Teleological Analysis of Altruism and Self-Control

    9. Consciousness and Behavior

10. Making IBM’s Computer Watson Human

        Two Commentaries

        Minding Rachlin’s Eliminative Materialism

        J. J. McDowell

        What Would It Be Like to Be IBM’s Computer Watson?

        Henry D. Schlinger, Jr.

        Response to Commentaries: Our Overt Behavior Makes Us Human

11. Shaping the Coherent Self: A Moral Achievement

References

Index