In this introduction to the philosophical problems underlying the modern study of mind and behavior, Ned Block has collected the most important papers by the major figures in the field. He provides the only central reference work now available for scholars and students in this growing area of inquiry.

Volume I covers general approaches to the study of the mind: behaviorism, reductionism, and functionalism. Volume II addresses the central topics in modern cognitive science: mental representation, imagery, grammar and innate ideas.

• Contents 
• Introduction. What Is Philosophy of Psychology?
• Block, Ned
• Part One. 
• Behaviorism
• Introduction: Behaviorism
• Savin, Harris
• 1. 
• The Logical Analysis of Psychology
• Hempel, Carl G.
• 2. 
• Brains and Behavior
• Putnam, Hilary
• 3. 
• Selections from Science and Human Behavior
• Skinner, B. F.
• 4. 
• A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior
• Chomsky, Noam
• Part Two. 
• Reductionism and Physicalism
• Materialism without Reductionism: What Physicalism Does Not Entail
• Boyd, Richard
• 5. 
• Mental Events
• Davidson, Donald
• 6. 
• Special Sciences, or The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis
• Fodor, Jerry A.
• 7. 
• Philosophy and Our Mental Life
• Putnam, Hilary
• 8. 
• Excerpt from “Identity and Necessity”
• Kripke, Saul A.
• 9. 
• Identity, Necessity, and Events
• Feldman, Fred
• 10. 
• Anomalous Monism and Kripke's Cartesian Intuitions
• McGinn, Colin
• 11. 
• What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
• Nagel, Thomas
• Part Three. 
• Functionalism
• Introduction: What Is Functionalism?
• Block, Ned
• Functional Analysis
• 12. 
• Functional Analysis
• Cummins, Robert
• Functional Specification
• 13. 
• The Nature of Mind
• Armstrong, D. M.
• 14. 
• Armstrong on the Mind
• Nagel, Thomas
• 15. 
• Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications
• Lewis, David
• 16. 
• Mad Pain and Martian Pain
• Lewis, David
• Functional State Identity Theory
• 17. 
• The Nature of Mental States
• Putnam, Hilary
• 18. 
• Review of Putnam
• Lewis, David
• 19. 
• Physicalism and the Multiple Realizability of Mental States
• Kim, Jaegwon
• 20. 
• What Psychological States Are Not
• Block, Ned
• Fodor, Jerry A.
• 21. 
• Functionalism and Qualia
• Shoemaker, Sydney
• 22. 
• Troubles with Functionalism
• Block, Ned
• Index