Structure of Thinking: A Process-oriented Account of Mind - Tapa dura

Weed, Laura E.

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

Sinopsis

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.

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Laura Weed teaches in the Department of Philosophy, College of Saint Rose

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Editorial
Imprint Academic
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0907845274
ISBN 13 
9780907845270
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Número de páginas
208
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