A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science - Softcover

Churchland, Paul M. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262531062 ISBN 13: 9780262531061

Publisher: MIT Press, 1992

Synopsis

If we are to solve the central problems in the philosophy of science, Paul Churchland argues, we must draw heavily on the resources of the emerging sciences of the mind-brain. A Neurocomputationial Perspective illustrates the fertility of the concepts and data drawn from the study of the brain and of artificial networks that model the brain. These concepts bring unexpected coherence to scattered issues in the philosophy of science, new solutions to old philosophical problems, and new possibilities for the enterprise of science itself. Paul M. Churchland is Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Cognitive Science Faculty at the University of California at San Diego.

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Review:

-- Andy Clark, "Times Higher Education Supplement"

" A bold and unified account encompassing an attitude to belief, desire, subjective experience, learning, grasp of theories and explanatory understanding.... A wide-ranging, daring and eloquently expressed vision.... I commend Paul Churchland's book as an achievement of breadth and poetry in a discipline too often breeding only stultifying narrowness." -- Andy Clark, "Times Higher Education Supplement"

& quot; A bold and unified account encompassing an attitude to belief, desire, subjective experience, learning, grasp of theories and explanatory understanding.... A wide-ranging, daring and eloquently expressed vision.... I commend Paul Churchland's book as an achievement of breadth and poetry in a discipline too often breeding only stultifying narrowness.& quot; -- Andy Clark, Times Higher Education Supplement

"A bold and unified account encompassing an attitude to belief, desire, subjective experience, learning, grasp of theories and explanatory understanding.... A wide-ranging, daring and eloquently expressed vision.... I commend Paul Churchland's book as an achievement of breadth and poetry in a discipline too often breeding only stultifying narrowness."--Andy Clark, "Times Higher Education Supplement"

Synopsis:

Churchland argues that the central problems in the philosophy of science can only be solved by drawing heavily on the resources of the emerging sciences of the mind-brain. This text shows the fertility of the concepts drawn from the study of the brain and artificial networks that model the brain. These concepts bring unexpected coherence to scattered issues in the philosophy of science, new solutions to old philosophical problems, and new possibilities for the enterprise of science itself.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0262531062
• ISBN 13: 9780262531061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348