| Description |
683 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
An excerpt from "Talking and thinking" / J.B. Watson -- An excerpt from "psychology in physical language" / Rudolf Carnap -- Is consciousness a brain process? / U.T. Place -- The causal theory of the mind / D.M. Armstrong -- The nature of mental states / Hilary Putnam -- Why the Law of Effect will not go away / Daniel C. Dennett -- The continuity of levels of nature / William G. Lycan -- Putting the function back into functionalism / Elliot Sober -- Functionalism, information and content / Robert Van Gulick -- Misrepresentation / Fred Dretske -- True believers : the intentional strategy and why it works / Daniel C. Dennett -- Dennett on intentional systems / Stephen P. Stich -- Making sense of ourselves / Daniel C. Dennett. |
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Mental events and the brain / Paul K. Feyerabend -- Eliminative materialism and the propositional attitudes / Paul M. Churchland -- Neural representation and neural computation / Patricia Smith Churchland and Terrence J. Sejnowski -- Connectionism and the philosophy of mind : an overview / William Bechtel -- Why there still has to be a language of thought / Jerry A. Fodor -- Stalking the wild epistemic engine / Paul M. Churchland and Patricia Smith Churchland -- Psychosematics, or : where do truth conditions come from? / Jerry A. Fodor -- Autonomous psychology and the belief-desire thesis / Stephen P. Stich -- An excerpt from "The syntactic theory of mind" / Stephen P. Stich -- A narrow representational theory of the mind / Michael Devitt. |
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Folk psychology is here to stay / Terence Horgan and James Woodward -- Banish discontent / Jerry A. Fodor -- An excerpt from "Troubles with functionalism" / Ned Block -- Epiphenomenal qualia / Frank Jackson -- Could love be like a heatwave? : physicalism and the subjective character of experience / Janet Levin -- Physicalism and the cognitive role of acquaintance / Laurence Nemirow -- What experience teaches / David Lewis -- Quining qualia / Daniel C. Dennett -- Color and illusion / C.L. Hardin -- The implications of Land's theory of color vision / Keith Campbell -- Mental pictures and cognitive science / Ned Block -- The imagery debate / Kim Sterelny -- On the nature, use and acquisition of language / Noam Chomsky. |
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Modeling language development / David Lightfoot -- Understanding natural language / John Haugeland. |
| Summary |
"Mind and Cognition" provides a review of contemporary developments in our understanding of the relationship of mind and body, thought and expression, machines and brains. |
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Mind and body.
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Thought and thinking.
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Cognitive science.
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Cognitive science. (OCoLC)fst00866547
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Mind and body. (OCoLC)fst01021997
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Thought and thinking. (OCoLC)fst01150249
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| Added Author |
Lycan, William G., editor.
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| ISBN |
0631160760 |
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9780631160762 |
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0631167633 (pbk.) |
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9780631167631 (pbk.) |
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