Plato's Camera: How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals - Rilegato

Churchland, Paul M.

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ISBN 10: 0262016869 ISBN 13: 9780262016865

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2012

Riassunto

In Plato's Camera, eminent philosopher Paul Churchland offers anovel account of how the brain constructs a representation -- or "takes a picture" -- of theuniverse's timeless categorical and dynamical structure. This construction process, which begins atbirth, yields the enduring background conceptual framework with which we will interpret our sensoryexperience for the rest of our lives. But, as even Plato knew, to make singular perceptual judgmentsrequires that we possess an antecedent framework of abstract categories to which any perceivedparticular can be relevantly assimilated. How that background framework is assembled in the firstplace is the motivating mystery, and the primary target, of Churchland's book.

Unexpectedly, this neurobiologically grounded account of human cognition alsoprovides a systematic story of how such low-level epistemological activities are integrated withinan enveloping framework of linguistic structures and regulatory mechanisms at the social level. AsChurchland illustrates, this integration of cognitive mechanisms at several levels has launched thehuman race on an epistemological adventure denied to all other terrestrial creatures.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Paul M. Churchland is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. His the author of The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul (MIT Press), Neurophilosophy at Work, and several other books.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262016869
• ISBN 13: 9780262016865
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 289
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile