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Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature (Hardcover, New)
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Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
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This book is a further contribution to the series Cambridge Studies
in Philosophy and Biology. It is an ambitious attempt to explain
the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity,
and in so doing to link philosophy of mind to more general issues
about the relations between organisms and environments, and to the
general pattern of "externalist" explanations. Two sets of
questions drive the argument. First, is it possible to develop an
informative philosophical theory about the mind by linking it to
properties of environmental complexity? Second, what is the nature
of externalist patterns of explanation? What is at stake in
attempting to understand the internal in terms of the external? The
author provides a biological approach to the investigation of mind
and cognition in nature. In particular he explores the idea that
the function of cognition is to enable agents to deal with
environmental complexity. The history of the idea in the work of
Dewey and Spencer is considered, as is the impact of recent
evolutionary theory on our understanding of the place of mind in
nature. This is a highly original philosophical project that will
appeal to a broad range of philosophers, especially those working
in the philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.
It will also interest evolutionary biologists, psychologists, and
historians of science.
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