Structure of Thinking

图书信息

作者	Wood, Laura E
出版社	Andrews UK
ISBN	9781845405861
出版时间	2013-06-17
字数	52.9万
分类	Andrews UK,进口书,外文原版书,科技,医学

读书简介

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 cognition - semantics, de re reference, indexicals, meaning and causation - are 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.

目录

Cover

Front matter

Title page

Copyright page

Introduction

Body matter

1: Mental Activity and Computation

2: Causation

3: Objections and Replies

4: Cognitive Science on Kausation Rather Than Causation

5: Semantical Causation

6: What Objects Are

7: The Concept of an Object

8: Stalnaker vs. Husserl

9: Relation Between X-type and Y-type Thinking Processes

10: The Third Man

11: Is Platonic Heaven All That Pure?

12: Overview and Conclusion

Back matter

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