The Logic of Mind

Reviews / Votes

Reviews of the First Edition: ` For Nelson, it is not enough to say people are computers and that mental processes are computational processes; one must also specify the kind of machine or automaton a person is. Nelson does just this.
... The striking fact about Nelson's book is simply that someone has finally put forth a detailed and theoretically sophisticated version of mechanism. '
Computational Linguistics
` The Logic of Mind offers novel and provation answers to a number of important problems in philosophy of mind. It deserves to be widely read. '
The Philosophical Review
` Overall, The Logic of Mind is a thought-provoking argument for the thesis that humans are automata. '
Contemporary Psychology
` ... is an excellent book written by a first-rate philosopher. It defends a version of mechanism, more specifically the thesis that humans are `non-deterministic finite automata'. ... The book is worth reading: it tours widely around not only the philosophy of psychology and mind, but much contemporary epistemology, philosophy of language, mathematics and logic as well. '
Australian Journal of Philosophy ` The Logic of Mind represents one of the fullest and most probing detailed available accounts of the outline of a computational theory of mind. It is no mere rhetoric on the possibility or desirability of such an enterprise. '
Philosophical Psychology, 4 (1) 1991