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New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and
wide-ranging responses by Block. Perhaps more than any other
philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and
scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and
forth across this divide, doing so with creativity and intensity.
Over the course of his career, Block has made groundbreaking
contributions to our understanding of intelligence, representation,
and consciousness. Blockheads! (the title refers to Block's
imaginary counterexample to the Turing test-and to the
Block-enthusiast contributors) offers eighteen new essays on
Block's work along with substantive and wide-ranging replies by
Block. The essays and responses not only address Block's past
contributions but are rich with new ideas and argument. They
importantly clarify many key elements of Block's work, including
his pessimism concerning such thought experiments as Commander Data
and the Nation of China; his more general pessimism about
intuitions and introspection in the philosophy of mind; the
empirical case for an antifunctionalist, biological theory of
phenomenal consciousness; the fading qualia problem for a
biological theory; the link between phenomenal consciousness and
representation (especially spatial representation); and the
reducibility of phenomenal representation. Many of the contributors
to Blockheads! are prominent philosophers themselves, including
Tyler Burge, David Chalmers, Frank Jackson, and Hilary Putnam.
Contributors Ned Block, Bill Brewer, Richard Brown, Tyler Burge,
Marisa Carrasco, David Chalmers, Frank Jackson, Hakwan Lau,
Geoffrey Lee, Janet Levin, Joseph Levine, William G. Lycan, Brian
P. McLaughlin, Adam Pautz, Hilary Putnam, Sydney Shoemaker, Susanna
Siegel, Nicholas Silins, Daniel Stoljar, Michael Tye, Sebastian
Watzl
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