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ix, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Representation and mind |
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Representation and mind.
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| Note |
"A Bradford book." |
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These essays all appeared in conference volumes or in specialized journals. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-400) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Can Machines Think? -- 2. Speaking for Our Selves / Nicholas Humphrey and Daniel C. Dennett -- 3. Do-It-Yourself Understanding -- 4. Two Contrasts: Folk Craft versus Folk Science, and Belief versus Opinion -- 5. Real Patterns -- 6. Julian Jaynes's Software Archeology -- 7. Real Consciousness -- 8. Instead of Qualia -- 9. The Practical Requirements for Making a Conscious Robot -- 10. The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies: Commentary on Moody, Flanagan, and Polger -- 11. Cognitive Wheels: The Frame Problem of AI -- 12. Producing Future by Telling Stories -- 13. The Logical Geography of Computational Approaches: A View from the East Pole -- 14. Hofstadter's Quest: A Tale of Cognitive Pursuit -- 15. Foreword to Robert French, The Subtlety of Sameness -- 16. Cognitive Science as Reverse Engineering: Several Meanings of "Top-Down" and "Bottom-Up" -- 17. Artificial Life as Philosophy -- 18. When Philosophers Encounter Artificial Intelligence -- 19. Review of Allen Newell, Unified Theories of Cognition -- 20. Out of the Armchair and into the Field -- 21. Cognitive Ethology: Hunting for Bargains or a Wild Goose Chase -- 22. Do Animals Have Beliefs? -- 23. Why Creative Intelligence Is Hard to Find: Commentary on Whiten and Byrne -- 24. Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why -- 25. Self-Portrait -- 26. Information, Technology, and the Virtues of Ignorance. |
| Summary |
Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social, and only a unified, multidisciplinary approach will yield a realistic theory of how minds came into existence and how they work. One of the foremost thinkers in this multidisciplinary field is Daniel Dennett. This book brings together his essays on philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive ethology that appeared in relatively inaccessible journals from 1984 to 1996. |
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Philosophy of mind.
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Artificial intelligence.
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Animal intelligence.
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Philosophy.
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Animal behavior.
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Cognition.
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Intellect.
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Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
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Intellect. (OCoLC)fst00975732
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Cognition. (OCoLC)fst00866457
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Animal behavior. (OCoLC)fst00809079
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Animal intelligence. (OCoLC)fst00809280
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Artificial intelligence. (OCoLC)fst00817247
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Philosophy of mind. (OCoLC)fst01060840
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| ISBN |
0262041669 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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9780262041669 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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0262540908 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780262540902 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0585002959 |
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9780585002958 |
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