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The Mechanical Mind - A Philosophical Introduction to Minds, Machines and Mental Representation (Paperback, 3rd edition)
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The Mechanical Mind - A Philosophical Introduction to Minds, Machines and Mental Representation (Paperback, 3rd edition)
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How can the human mind represent the external world? What is
thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Should we think of
the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a computer? Can a
computer think? Tim Crane sets out to answer these questions and
more in a lively and straightforward way, presuming no prior
knowledge of philosophy or related disciplines. Since its first
publication, The Mechanical Mind has introduced thousands of people
to some of the most important ideas in contemporary philosophy of
mind. Crane explains the fundamental ideas that cut across
philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence and cognitive science:
what the mind-body problem is; what a computer is and how it works;
what thoughts are and how computers and minds might have them. He
examines different theories of the mind from dualist to
eliminativist, and questions whether there can be thought without
language and whether the mind is subject to the same causal laws as
natural phenomena. The result is a fascinating exploration of the
theories and arguments surrounding the notions of thought and
representation. This third edition has been fully revised and
updated, and includes a wholly new chapter on externalism about
mental content and the extended and embodied mind. There is a
stronger emphasis on the environmental and bodily context in which
thought occurs. Many chapters have been reorganised to make the
reader's passage through the book easier. The book now contains a
much more detailed guide to further reading, and the chronology and
the glossary of technical terms have also been updated. The
Mechanical Mind is accessible to anyone interested in the
mechanisms of our minds, and essential reading for those studying
philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, or cognitive
psychology.
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