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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weed, Laura E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Exeter ; Charlottesville, Va. : Imprint Academic, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 -...

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-84540-587-0

OCLC:

855504431