Philosophy and Memory Traces - Descartes to Connectionism (Paperback)

Philosophy and Memory Traces defends two theories of autobiographical memory. One is a bewildering historical view of memories as dynamic patterns in fleeting animal spirits, nervous fluids which rummaged through the pores of brain and body. The other is new connectionism, in which memories are 'stored' only superpositionally, and reconstructed rather than reproduced. Both models, argues John Sutton, depart from static archival metaphors by employing distributed representation, which brings interference and confusion between memory traces. Both raise urgent issues about control of the personal past, and about relations between self and body. Sutton demonstrates the role of bizarre body fluids in moral physiology, as philosophers from Descartes and Locke to Coleridge struggled to control their own innards and impose cognitive discipline on 'the phantasmal chaos of association'. Going on to defend connectionism against Fodor and critics of passive mental representations, he shows how problems of the self are implicated in cognitive science.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2007
First published:	1998
Authors:	John Sutton
Dimensions:	228 x 153 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-03937-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN:	0-521-03937-1
Barcode:	9780521039376

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