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Representation and reality
"A Bradford book."Hilary Putnam, who may have been the first philosopher to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radically new view of his own theory of functionalism in this book. Putnam argues that in fact the computational analogy cannot answer the important questions about the nature of such mental states as belief, reasoning, rationality, and knowledge…
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- 0585021228
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- 1 online resource (xv, 136 pages).
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Representations, targets, and attitudes
"A Bradford book."What is it for something in the mind to represent something? Robert Cummins looks at the familiar problems of representation theory (what information is represented in the mind, what form mental representation takes, how representational schemes are implemented in the brain, what it is for one thing to represent another) from an unprecedented angle. Instead of following the us…
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- 9780262271035
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- 1 online resource (153 pages) :illustrations.
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Relativism and the foundations of philosophy
"A Bradford book."A defense of the view that philosophical propositions are true in some perspectives and false in others, arguing that the rationalist, intuition-driven method of acquiring basic beliefs favored by analytic philosophy is not epistemically superior to such alternate belief-acquiring methods as religious revelation and the ritual use of hallucinogens. The grand and sweeping claim…
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- 9780262274746
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- 1 online resource (x, 216 pages)
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The rediscovery of the mind
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- 9780262315982
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- 1 online resource (xv, 270 pages).
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Reconstructing the cognitive world :the next step
"A Bradford book.""In Reconstructing the Cognitive World, Michael Wheeler argues that we should turn away from the generically Cartesian philosophical foundations of much contemporary cognitive science research and proposes instead a Heideggerian approach. Wheeler begins with an interpretation of Descartes. He defines Cartesian psychology as a conceptual framework of explanatory principles and …
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- 9780262286039
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- 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages)
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Reasoning about knowledge
Title from title screen.Title from website (viewed Jan. 20, 2006).Reasoning about knowledge--particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the world and each other's knowledge--was once the exclusive province of philosophers and puzzle solvers. More recently, this type of reasoning has been shown to play a key role in a surprising number of contexts, from understanding conversations to …
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- 9780262256094
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 517 pages) :illustrations
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The realistic spirit :Wittgenstein, philosophy, and the mind
The realistic spirit, a nonmetaphysical approach to philosophical thought concerned with the character of philosophy itself, informs all of the discussions in these essays by philosopher Cora Diamond. Diamond explains Wittgenstein's notoriously elusive later writings, explores the background to his thought in the work of Frege, and discusses ethics in a way that reflects his influence. Diamond'…
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- 9780262271660
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- 1 online resource (412 pages).
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Readings on color
"A Bradford book."Color is an endlessly fascinating subject to philosophers, scientists, and laypersons, as well an an instructive microcosm of cognitive science. In these two anthologies, Alex Byrne and David Hilbert present a survey of the important recent philosophical and scientific writings on color. The introduction to volume 1 provides a philosophical background and links the philosophic…
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- 9780262269636
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- 1 online resource (2 volumes) :illustrations
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Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science.
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- 9780262287814
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- 1 online resource (872 pages)
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A slim book about narrow content
A good understanding of the nature of a property requires knowing whether that property is relational or intrinsic. Gabriel Segal's concern is whether certain psychological properties -- specifically, those that make up what might be called the "cognitive content" of psychological states -- are relational or intrinsic. He claims that content supervenes on microstructure, that is, if two beings …
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- 9780262283366
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