To Understand a Cat -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1. Scientification: Placing anecdotes and anthropomorphism under the umbrella of science as the first step -- 1.1 An ambush for a night moth -- 1.2 Some methodological thoughts: Anthropomorphism and anecdotes -- 1.2.1 Scientific observation and anecdotes -- 1.2.2 Scientific explanation and anthropomorphism -- 1.2.3 A methodological proposal: 'Equal hypotheses testing' -- 1.2.4 Mechanistic explanations and mentalistic explanations -- 2. Anecdotes and the methodologyof testing hypotheses -- 2.1 The living space of Max the cat -- 2.2 Pros and cons of observations of Max the cat -- 2.3 Construction and testing of hypotheses from anecdotes -- 2.4 Test of the hypothesis that Max ambushed the night moth for his amusement -- 2.5 Matching a mentalistic explanation to behavior: the "Principle of New Application" -- 3. Free will, consciousness, and explanation -- 3.1 The methodological status of indicators of private behavior -- 3.2 Indicators of free will in Max the cat -- 3.3 Discussion of indicators of free will -- 3.4 Indicators of free will, consciousness, and explanation -- 4. THE STRUCTURE OF MENTALISTIC THEORY AND THE REASONS FOR ITS USE -- 4.1 The structure of a theory -- 4.2 Why should one use a mentalistic explanation? -- 5. Three-stage interpretation -- 5.1 Three-stage interpretation and the principle of new application -- 5.2 Comparison of the three-stage interpretation and other approaches to an explanation for complex behavior -- 5.3 Cannot Max's behavior, ultimately, be explained mechanistically, as simple learning? -- 5.3.1 Examples of behavioral episodes explained as simple learning processes -- 5.3.2 Are learning processes mechanistic or mentalistic? -- 5.3.3 An attempt to propose mechanistic explanationsfor mentalistic behavioral episodes.

Pictures of Max the cat -- 6. MULTI-EXPLANATION THEORY -- 6.1 An explanation model, an empirical test, and a multi-explanation theory -- 6.2 Examples from Max's behavior and from psychology -- 6.3 Three methodological problems connected to the multi-explanation theory -- 6.3.1 The ad hoc explanation problem -- 6.3.2 The inconsistency problem -- 6.3.3 The incomparability problem -- 6.4 Guidelines for the solution of the three problems -- 6.4.1 How to determine a match between an explanation model and a given empirical phenomenon -- 6.4.2 How should the explanatory units be organized? -- 6.4.3 Do the guidelines help solve the three problems: an ad hoc explanation, inconsistency, and incomparability of theories? -- 6.5 Multi-explanation theory, giving an explanation, and empirical test -- 6.5.1 Is the multi-explanation theory tested by use of the H-D method? -- 6.5.2 Is the explanation offered by the multi-explanation theory similar to the explanation offered in the natural sciences? -- 7. THE MENTALISTIC EXPLANATION SCHEME -- 7.1 A model, a mentalistic explanation scheme -- 7.1.1 A teleological explanation model and folk psychology -- 7.1.2 Teleological explanation and refutation -- 7.1.3 What is a suitable explanation scheme? -- 7.1.4 A mentalistic explanation model and scientific laws -- 7.2 A scheme of mentalistic explanation and other explanatory approaches -- 7.2.1 "Intentional stance" -- 7.2.2 Functional analysis and the status of empirical generalizations in psychology -- 7.2.2.1 Empirical generalization as supplying partial explanatory information -- 7.2.2.2 Transition from descriptive generalization to explanatory generalization -- 8. Establishing multi-explanation theory (b): Methodological dualism -- 8.1 Mental causality -- 8.2 Functionalism and multiple realizability -- 8.3 The computer and the process of decomposition -- 8.4 Reduction.

8.5 Multiple realizability and decomposition -- a methodological note -- 8.6 Consciousness -- 9. METHODOLOGICAL DUALISM AND MULTI-EXPLANATION THEORY IN THE BROAD PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT -- 9.1 Methodological dualism, "Scientification", explanatory dualism, functionalism, and levels of explanation -- 9.2 Multi-explanation theory and other approaches to constructing theories -- 9.3 Multi-explanation theory, understanding, explanation, and emergent properties -- 9.3.1 Two kinds of explanation (scheme fitting, mechanism discovery) and the mosaic example -- 9.3.2 Emergent properties and the mosaic example -- References -- Subject index -- Name index -- The series Advances in Consciousness Research.