Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind

Devlin, Keith

ISBN 10: 0471142166 / ISBN 13: 9780471142164

Editore: Wiley, 1997

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Titolo: Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the...

Casa editrice: Wiley

Data di pubblicazione: 1997

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione: good

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Riassunto:

A narrative that traces how the concept of the mind as a logic machine developed over time asserts that logic is an inadequate model for the human mind's functionality and concludes that current efforts at replicating human thought will most likely fail. 15,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

L'autore:

KEITH DEVLIN, Ph.D., is Senior Researcher at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Communication. His previous books include Mathematics: The New Golden Age and Mathematics: The Science of Patterns. His television appearances include the BBC/Nova documentary "A Mathematical Mystery Tour." He lives in Moraga, California.