The structure of thinking [[electronic resource] ] : a process-oriented account of mind / / Laura E. Weed

• Autore: Weed Laura E
• Pubblicazione: Exeter ; ; Charlottesville, Va., : Imprint Academic, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Disciplina: 128/.2
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy of mind; Cognition
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 -...
• Titolo autorizzato: The structure of thinking
• ISBN: 1-84540-587-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463449103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II