Dimensions Mind Symposium by Sidney Hook Edited (2 results)
More imagesPublished by Collier Books, New York, 1966
- Softcover
Seller: Aspen Book Co., Denver, CO, U.S.A.Aspen Book Co.
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. Condition: Acceptable. Third Printing 1966. The book is in good condition for its age, with some expected wear on the cover and spine. The pages are intact, though slightly yellowed, consistent with a paperback from 1966. There are no inscriptions or library markings, maintaining its original integrity.
More imagesPublished by New York University Press, New York, 1960
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Octavo. xiii, 281pp. Owner name and stamp of a noted American psychologist on the front fly else fine in a very good or better dust jacket with a lightly rippled spine with the tiniest bit of sunning, and a few very short tears. Proceedin…gs of the third annual NYU Institute of Philosophy, held in 1959. Billed on the jacket as "[a]n exploration of the roles of the brain and the mind in the era of 'thinking' and 'learning' machines," the book is separated into three sections: "The Mind-Body Problem," "The Brain and the Machine," and "Concept-Formation." Prints contributions by Wolgang Kohler ("The Mind-Body Problem"), Norbert Wiener ("The Brain and the Machine [Summary])", B. F. Skinner ("Concept-Formation in Philosophy and Psychology"), Arthur C. Danto ("On Consciousness in Machines"), Herbert Feigle, Stephen Toulmin, H. Putnam, Satoshi Watanabe (of IBM: "Comments on Key Issues"), H. H. Price, J. B. Rhine, Michael Scriven ("The Compleat Robot: A Prolegomena to Androidology"), Ernest Nagel, Curt Ducasse, Paul Weiss ("Love in a Machine Age"), and others.
