8. Pain, Polio, and Pride: Some Reflections on “Becausal” Explanations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Rules and Normativity
5. 1. De-Individualizing Norms of Rationality (1995) 23
6. 2. Normativity and Thought (1999) 46
7. 3. Playing the Rule-Following Game (2000) 63
8. 4. Real Rules (2008) 88
9. II. Reason-Explanation and Mental Causation
10. 5. Why Reasons May Not Be Causes (1995) 103
11. 6. Reason-Explanation and the Contents of the Mind (2005) 133
12. 7. Reasons as Non-Causal, Context-Placing Explanations (2009) 149
13. 8. Pain, Polio, and Pride: Some Reflections on “Becausal” Explanations 171
14. III. Philosophical Elucidation and Cognitive Science
15. 9. How To Resist Mental Representations (1998) 189
16. 10. On The Conceptual, Psychological, And Moral Status Of Zombies, Swamp-Beings, And Other “Behaviorally Indistinguishable” Creatures (2004) 208
17. 11. Conceptual Analysis, Theory Construction, and Philosophical Elucidation in the Philosophy of Mind 226
18. 12. Ryle’s Regress and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (2011) 249
19. IV. Self-Knowledge
20. 13. Some Constructivist Thoughts about Self-Knowledge (1996) 279
21. 14. Self-Knowledge, Normativity, and Construction (2002) 300
22. 15. Speaking One’s Mind (2007) 322
23. 16. Conceptual Amorphousness, Reasons, and Causes 334
24. Acknowledgments Provenance of Essays Index
25. Acknowledgments 359
26. Provenance of Essays 361
27. Index 365