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This is the second of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing. Key issues in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science are explored in the course of celebrating Turing's work. The distinguished cast of contributors includes Paul M. Churchland, L. Jonathan Cohen, Mario Compiani, Peter Dayan, Beatrice de Gelder, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Frank Jackson, Michael Morris, Jon Oberlander, Christopher Peacocke, Philip Pettot, Ian Pratt, Joop Schopman and Aziz Shawky, Murray Shanahan, and Chris Thornton.
Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology program at Washington State University, St Louis, Missouri. He is the author of Microcognition (MIT Press 1989) and Associative Engines (MIT Press 1993). Peter Millican is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Computer Studies at the University of Leeds.
Show moreThis is the second of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing. Key issues in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science are explored in the course of celebrating Turing's work. The distinguished cast of contributors includes Paul M. Churchland, L. Jonathan Cohen, Mario Compiani, Peter Dayan, Beatrice de Gelder, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Frank Jackson, Michael Morris, Jon Oberlander, Christopher Peacocke, Philip Pettot, Ian Pratt, Joop Schopman and Aziz Shawky, Murray Shanahan, and Chris Thornton.
Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology program at Washington State University, St Louis, Missouri. He is the author of Microcognition (MIT Press 1989) and Associative Engines (MIT Press 1993). Peter Millican is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Computer Studies at the University of Leeds.
Show moreAndy Clark: Introduction
1: Paul M. Churchland: Learning and Conceptual Change: The View
from the Neurons
2: Mario Compiani: Remarks on the Paradigms of Connectionism
3: Joop Schopman and Aziz Shawky: Remarks on the Impact of
Connectionism on our Thinking about Concepts
4: Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit: Causation in the Philosophy of
Mind
5: Jon Oberlander and Peter Dayan: Altered States and Virtual
Beliefs
6: Christopher Peacocke: The Relation between Philosophical and
Psychological Theories of Concepts
7: Michael Morris: How Simple is the Simple Account?
8: Beatrice de Gelder: Modularity and Logical Cognitivism
9: Murray Shanahan: Folk Learning and Naive Physics
10: Chris Thornton: Why Concept Learning is a Good Idea
11: Douglas R. Hofstadter: Analogy-Making, Fluid Concepts, and
Brain Mechanisms
12: Ian Pratt: Encoding Psychological Knowledge
13: L. Jonathan Cohen: Does Belief Exist?
Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology program at Washington State University, St Louis, Missouri. He is the author of Microcognition (MIT Press 1989) and Associative Engines (MIT Press 1993). Peter Millican is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Computer Studies at the University of Leeds.
A fascinating series of essays on computation by contributors in
various fields.
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A fascinating series of essays on computation by contributors in
various fields.
*Choice*
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