Mind and Cognition
A Reader
Published on 1. April 1990
Book
Hardback
742 pages
978-0-631-16076-2 (ISBN)
Description
"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. It collects both classic articles and original pieces in an overview of the complex, sophisticated and sometimes conflicting developments in theories of mind. In the past thirty years the philosophy of mind has seen a shift of doctrine, of method and of perspective. A hallmark of this shift is the attention of philosophers to science: not only to psychology and linguistics, but also to computer science, evolutionary biology and neuroanatomy. This volume makes available to students, teachers and researchers contributions to this shift.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-631-16076-2 (9780631160762)
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Content
Part 1 Ontology from behaviourism to functionalism: behavioursism; the identity theory; early causal and functionalist views. Part 2 Homuncular functionalism and other teleological theories: homuncular functionalism; teleological functionalism; theleological views of intentionality. Part 3 Instrumentalism: "true believers"; "Dennett on intentional systems"; "making sense of ourselves". Part 4 Eliminativism and neurophilosophy: classical eliminativism; current eliminativism; neurophilosophy and connectionism. Part 5 The "Language of Thought" hypothesis: defending the "Language of Thought"; attacking; psychosemantics. Part 6 The status of "Folk Psychology": attacking folk psychology; defending. Part 7 Consciousness, "Qualia" and subjectivity: "Qualia" - based objections to functionalism; functionalist responses.