The Structure of Thinking: A Process-oriented Account of Mind - Rilegato

Weed, Laura E.

 
9780907845270: The Structure of Thinking: A Process-oriented Account of Mind
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ISBN 10: 0907845274 ISBN 13: 9780907845270
Casa editrice: Imprint Academic, 2003

Sinossi

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 cognitionsemantics, de re reference, indexicals, meaning and causationare all rooted in human experience and life. Without life and experience, these elements of discourse and knowledge refer to nothing. And without these elements of discourse and knowledge, syntax is vacant structure, not thinking.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Laura Weed is assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies at the College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY.

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Editore
Imprint Academic
Data di pubblicazione
2003
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0907845274
ISBN 13 
9780907845270
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
244
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Persona responsabile
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