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A quite un-interesting and not overly relevant treatment of concepts of narrow versus broad content.

Chapter 10 is beautifully written: it deals with my favourites theories of intentional states: the "language of thought" hypothesis and the map theory.

The deeply unsatisfactory theories of instrumentalism (and its interpretationist cousin) are explained. Intentional system theory is also briefly treated.

An OK but too brief treatment of the the complex issues raised by phenomenal qualities (aka "qualia").

Pretty standard, concisely but well written introduction to classical issues in identity theory (including the well-known alternatives between type-type and token-token identity theories). The level is introductory, at undergraduate level. The overall approach is very typical of a college textbook.

Chapter4: an excursus on theories of reference (with focus on the descriptive and causal theories). I found this chapter less clear and of lesser quality than the previous ones - definitely not one of the best treatments of theories of reference I have come across.