The structure of thinking: a process-oriented account of mind
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Main Author: Weed, Laura E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Exeter, UK Imprint Academic ©2003
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index
Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Introduction; Body matter; 1: Mental Activity and Computation; 2: Causation; 3: Objections and Replies; 4: Cognitive Science on Kausation Rather Than Causation; 5: Semantical Causation; 6: What Objects Are; 7: The Concept of an Object; 8: Stalnaker vs. Husserl; 9: Relation Between X-type and Y-type Thinking Processes; 10: The Third Man; 11: Is Platonic Heaven All That Pure?; 12: Overview and Conclusion; Back matter; Bibliography; Also available
Analytic philosophers and cognitive scientists have long argued that the mind is a computer-like syntactical engine, and that all human mental capacities can be described as digital computational processes. This book presents an alternative, naturalistic view of human thinking, arguing that computers are merely sophisticated machines. Computers are only simulating thought when they crunch symbols, not thinking. Human cognition - semantics, de re reference, indexicals, meaning and causation - ..
Physical Description:248 pages
ISBN:9781845405878
1845405870
0907845274
9780907845270

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