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The Mechanization of the Mind : On the Origins of Cognitive Science /
"In March 1946, some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century - among them John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, and Walter Pitts - gathered at the Beekman Hotel in New York City with the aim of constructing a science of mental behavior that would resolve at last the ancient...
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| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The self-mechanized mind. The cybernetic credo
- Cybernetics and cognitivism
- The question of humanism
- History of science vs. history of ideas. 1. The fascination with models. The virtue of models
- Manipulating representations
- The turning machine
- Knowing as simulating. 2. A poorly loved parent. A new scienza nuova?
- Mechanizing the human
- Brain/mind/machine
- McCulloch's neurons
- Connectionism vs. Cognitivism
- Von Neumann's machine. 3. The limits of interdisciplinarity. The macy conferences
- The cyberneticians in debate
- Unifying the work of the mind
- The physicalist temptation. 4. Philosophy and cognition. Naturalizing epistemology
- The obstacle of intentionality
- Brentano betrayed
- The missed encounter with phenomenology
- A subjectless philosophy of mind
- McCulloch vs. Wiener
- 5. From information to complexity. Information and physicalism
- Between form, chance, and meaning
- Cooperation and cognition
- Cybernetic totalities
- System and autonomy
- Complexity: the model becomes blurred. 6. Aspects of a failure. Learning about complexity
- The Ashby case, or the return to metaphysics
- Subjectless processes
- The missed rendezvous with the human sciences.