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Mind and Cognition William G. Lycan

Mind and Cognition By William G. Lycan

Mind and Cognition by William G. Lycan


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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 Cognition: A Reader by William G. Lycan

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.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Ontology from behaviourism to functionalism: behaviourism; 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.

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GOR003147103
9780631167631
B002570P38
Mind and Cognition: A Reader by William G. Lycan
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
19900419
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