On the Contrary

Paul and Patricia Churchland are towering figures in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness. This collection was prepared in the belief that the most useful and revealing of anyone´s writings are often those much shorter essays penned in conflict with or criticism of one´s professional colleagues. The essays present the Churchlands´ critical responses to a variety of philosophical positions advanced by some two dozen philosophical theorists, almost all of whom are still living. The book is divided into three parts: part I, Folk Psychology and Eliminative Materialism; part II, Meaning, Qualia, and Emotion: The Several Dimensions of Consciousness; and part III, the Philosophy of Science. V. S. Ramachandran and Rick Grush are coauthors on two of the essays.
Table of Contents

I Folk Psychology and Eliminative Materialism
1 Folk Psychology. Paul M. Churchland
2 Theory, Taxonomy, and Methodology: A Reply to Haldane´s "Understanding Folk". Paul M. Churchland
3 Evaluating Our Self-Conception. Paul M. Churchland
4 Activation Vectors vs. Propositional Attitudes: How the Brain Represents Reality. Paul M. Churchland
II Meaning, Qualia, and Emotion: The Several Dimensions of Consciousness
5 Could a Machine Think?. Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland
6 Intertheoretic Reduction: A Neuroscientist´s Field Guide. Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland
7 Conceptual Similarity Across Sensory and Neural Diversity: The Fodor-Lepore Challenge Answered. Paul M. Churchland
8 Betty Crocker´s Theory of Consciousness. Paul M. Churchland
9 The Rediscovery of Light. Paul M. Churchland
10 Knowing Qualia: A Reply to Jackson. Paul M. Churchland
11 Recent Work on Consciousness: Philosophical, Theoretical, and Empirical. Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland
12 Filling In: Why Dennett Is Wrong. Patricia S. Churchland and V. S. Ramachandran
13 Gaps in Penrose´s Toilings. Rick Grush and Patricia S. Churchland
14 Feeling Reasons. Patricia S. Churchland
III The Philosophy of Science
15 A Deeper Unity: Some Feyerabendian Themes in Neurocomputational Form. Paul M. Churchland
16 Reply to Glymour. Paul M. Churchland
17 To Transform the Phenomena: Feyerabend, Proliferation, and Recurrent Neural Networks. Paul M. Churchland
18 How Parapsychology Could Become a Science. Paul M. Churchland