Brainstorms : Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology /

When Brainstorms was published in 1978, the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science was just emerging. Daniel Dennett was a young scholar who wanted to get philosophers out of their armchairs -- and into conversations with psychologists, linguists, computer scientists. This collection of sevent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2017.
Edition:40th Anniversary edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Psychology > Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Cognition.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
cognition.
philosophy.
Psychologie > Philosophie.
Philosophie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intentional explanation and attributions of mentality
  • International systems
  • Reply to Arbib and Gunderson
  • Brain writing and mind reading
  • The nature of theory in psychology
  • Skinner skinned
  • Why the law of effect will not go away
  • A cure for the common code?
  • Artificial intelligence as philosophy and as psychology
  • Objects of consciousness and the nature of experience
  • Are dreams experiences?
  • Toward a cognitive theory of consciousness
  • Two approaches to mental images
  • Why you can't make a computer that feels pain
  • Free will and personhood
  • Mechanism and responsibility
  • The abilities of men and machines
  • Conditions of personhood
  • On giving libertarians what they say they want
  • How to change your mind
  • Where am I?

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