The influence of Patricia and Paul Churchland's work on contemporary philosophy and cognitive science has been profound. The Churchlands have challenged nearly all prevailing doctrines concerning knowledge, mind, science, and language.Introduction.
Part I: Essays Addressed to the Churchlands:.
1. Explanatory Pluralism and the Co-evolution of Theories in Science: Robert N McCauley (Emory University).
2. From Neurophilosophy to neurocomputation: Searching for the Cognitive Forest: Patricia Kitcher (University of California at San Diego).
3. Dealing in Futures: Folk Psychology and the Role of Representations in Cognitive Science: Andy Clark (Washington University).
4. Paul Churchland's PDP Approach to Explanation: William G Lycan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
5. What should a Connectionist Philosophy of Science Look Like?: William Bechtel (Georgia State University).
6. Paul Churchland and State Space Semantics: Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University).
7. Reply to Churchland: Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University).
8. Images and subjectivity: Neurobiological Trials and Tribulations: Antonio R Damasio and Hanna Damasio (University of California at San Diego).
9. Neurophilosophy: Without a Hyphen Already: John Marshall and Jennifer Gurd (University of Oxford).
10. The Moral Network: Owen Flanagan (Duke University).
Part II: Replies From the Churchlands A: The Future of Psychology, Folk and Scientific:.
1. McCauley's Demand for a Co-level Competitor.
2. Connectionism as Psychology.
3. Kitcher's Empirical Challenge to PSC: Has There Been Progress in Neurophilosophy?.
4. Clark's Connectionist Defense of Folk Psyl
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