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Complexity and the function of mind in nature
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ISBN: 9780521451666 9781139172714 9780521646246 0521646243 0521451663 1139172719 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book explains the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity, and in so doing links philosophy of mind to more general issues about the relations between organisms and environments, and to the general pattern of 'externalist' explanations. The author provides a biological approach to the investigation of mind and cognition in nature. In particular he explores the idea that the function of cognition is to enable agents to deal with environmental complexity. The history of the idea in the work of Dewey and Spencer is considered, as is the impact of recent evolutionary theory on our understanding of the place of mind in nature.

Without good reason : the rationality debate in philosophy and cognitive science
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ISBN: 0198235747 9780198235743 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

The meaning of mind : language, morality, and neuroscience
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ISBN: 0275956032 9780275956035 Year: 1996 Publisher: Westport, Conn.: Praeger,

Mind and morality : an examination of Hume's moral psychology
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ISBN: 0198235895 9780198235897 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

The first-person perspective and other essays
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ISBN: 0521568714 0521560306 9780521568715 9780521560306 9780511624674 0511624670 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Sydney Shoemaker is one of the most influential philosophers currently writing on philosophy of mind and metaphysics. The essays in this collection deal with the way in which we know our own minds, and with the nature of those mental states of which we have our most direct conscious awareness. Professor Shoemaker opposes the 'inner sense' conception of introspective self-knowledge. He defends the view that perceptual and sensory states have non-representational features - 'qualia' - that determine what it is like to have them. Amongst the other topics covered are the unity of consciousness, and the idea that the 'first-person perspective' gives a privileged route to philosophical understanding of the nature of mind. This major collection is sure to prove invaluable to all advanced students of the philosophy of mind and cognitive science.

Deconstructing the mind
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ISBN: 0195126661 0195100816 0199868328 9786610451760 1280451769 0198026080 058527827X 9780195126662 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press

Mind and world : with a new introduction
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ISBN: 0674576101 9780674576100 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press,

Consciousness and the origins of thought
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ISBN: 0521564093 0521035694 0511597991 9780521564090 Year: 1996 Volume: *6 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book offers a comprehensive and broadly rationalist theory of the mind which continually tests itself against experimental results and clinical data. Taking issue with Empiricists who believe that all knowledge arises from experience and that perception is a non-cognitive state, Norton Nelkin argues that perception is cognitive, constructive and proposition-like. Further, as against Externalists who believe that our thoughts have meaning only insofar as they advert to the world outside our minds, he argues that meaning is determined 'in the head'. Finally, he offers an account of how we acquire some of our most basic concepts, including the concept of the self and that of other minds.

Symbols, computation, and intentionality : a critique of the computational theory of mind
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ISBN: 0520200527 058527486X Year: 1996 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California,

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