The mechanical mind : a philosophical introduction to minds, machines, and mental representation /
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| Author / Creator: | Crane, Tim. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2003. |
| Description: | xi, 259 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4924649 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Introduction: the mechanical mind
- The mechanical world picture
- The mind
- 1. The puzzle of representation
- The idea of representation
- Pictures and resemblance
- Linguistic representation
- Mental representation
- Thought and consciousness
- Intentionality
- Brentano's thesis
- Conclusion: from representation to the mind
- Further reading
- 2. Understanding thinkers and their thoughts
- The mind-body problem
- Understanding other minds
- The causal picture of thoughts
- Common-sense psychology
- The science of thought: elimination or vindication?
- Theory versus simulation
- Conclusion: from representation to computation
- Further reading
- 3. Computers and thought
- Asking the right questions
- Computation, functions and algorithms
- Turing machines
- Coding and symbols
- Instantiating a function and computing a function
- Automatic algorithms
- Thinking computers?
- Artificial intelligence
- Can thinking be captured by rules and representations?
- The Chinese room
- Conclusion: can a computer think?
- Further reading
- 4. The mechanisms of thought
- Cognition, computation and functionalism
- The language of thought
- Syntax and semantics
- The argument for the language of thought
- The modularity of mind
- Problems for the language of thought
- 'Brainy' computers
- Conclusion: does computation explain representation?
- Further reading
- 5. Explaining mental representation
- Reduction and definition
- Conceptual and naturalistic definitions
- Causal theories of mental representation
- The problem of error
- Mental representation and success in action
- Mental representation and biological function
- Evolution and the mind
- Against reduction and definition
- Conclusion: can representation be reductively explained?
- Further reading
- 6. Consciousness and the mechanical mind
- The story so far
- Consciousness, 'what it's like' and qualia
- Consciousness and physicalism
- The limits of scientific knowledge
- Conclusion: what do the problems of consciousness tell us about the mechanical mind?
- Further reading
- Glossary
- The mechanical mind: a chronology
- Notes
- Index