References of Lecture (18). Lecture 18: Mental processes, experience and introspection (6/3/1974).
Baldwin, J. M. (1902). Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, Vol.II. Macmillan.
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Boring, E. G. (1950). A history of experimental psychology (2nd edition; first edition: 1929). Appleton-Century-Crofts.
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Broadbent, D. E. (1958). Perception and Communication. Pergamon.
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Humphrey, G. E. (1951). Thinking, an introduction to its experimental psychology Methuen.
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James, W. (1890). Principles of Psychology (2 Volumes). Holt.
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Jastrow, J. (1900). Fact and Fable in Psychology Houghton-Mifflin.
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Kant, I. (1781/1787). Kritik der reinen Vernunft (First edition 1781, second edition 1787, English translation as The critique of pure reason). Hartknoch
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Malcolm, N. (1959). Dreaming. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Place, U. T. (1956). Is consciousness a brain process? British Journal of Psychology, 47, 44-50.
[Abstract]The thesis that consciousness is a process in the brain is put forward as a reasonable scientific hypothesis, not to be dismissed on logical grounds alone. The conditions under which two sets of observations are treated as observations of the same process, rather than as observations of two independent correlated processes, are discussed. It is suggested that we can identify consciousness with a given pattern of brain activity, if we can explain the subject's introspective observations by reference to the brain processes with which they are correlated. It is argued that the problem of providing a physiological explanation of introspective observations is made to seem more difficult than it really is by the `phenomenological fallacy', the mistaken idea that descriptions of the appearances of things are descriptions of the actual state of affairs in a mysterious internal environment.
Keywords: consciousness, mind-brain identity theory, phenomenological fallacy
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The revised version from 1997, see download (below), is not published and incorporates revisions proposed in Place (1997g).
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Place, U. T. (1966). Consciousness and perception in psychology II. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Vol. XL, 101-124. doi:10.1093/aristoteliansupp/40.1.85 [this doi is for the Supplementary Volume consisting of part I by A.J. Watson and part II by U. T. Place]
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Place, U. T. (1971a). The infallibility of our knowledge of our own beliefs. Analysis, 31, 197-204. doi:10.1093/analys/31.6.197
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Place, U. T. (1972a). Sensations and processes - a reply to Munsat. Mind, LXXXI, 106-112. www.jstor.org/stable/2252189
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Ryle, G. (1949). The Concept of Mind. Hutchinson.
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Titchener, E. B. (1896). An outline of Psychology. Macmillan.
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Titchener, E.B. (1909). Lectures on the experimental psychology of the thought processes Macmillan.
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Wittgenstein, L. (1953). Philosophical Investigations (English translation by G. E. M. Anscombe). Basil Blackwell.
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