The Logic of Mind

The Logic of Mind by R.J. Nelson.

This book presents a mechanist philosophy of mind. I hold that the human mind is a system of computational or recursive rules that are embodied in the nervous system; that the material presence of these rules accounts for perception, conception, speech, belief, desire, intentional acts, and other fo...

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Main Author: Nelson, R.J (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1989.
Edition:2nd ed. 1989.
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 155
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Logic.
Artificial intelligence.
Philosophy of mind.
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Table of Contents:
  • I / Introduction
  • 1. The Revival of Mental Philosophy
  • 2. Mechanism
  • 3. Naturalism
  • 4. Two Problems of Mind
  • II / What Is a Rule of Mind?
  • 1. Signals and Control
  • 2. Turing Machines
  • 3. Logic and Logic of Mind
  • 4. Nerve Networks and Finite Automata
  • 5. Computer Logic
  • 6. Glimpses from Psychology
  • 7. Summary on Rules
  • III / Behavior and Structure
  • 1. Some Varieties of Automata
  • 2. Fitting and Guiding
  • 3. Empirical Realism
  • IV / Mechanism — Arguments PRO and CON
  • 1. Thinking Machines
  • 2. The Argument from Analogy
  • 3. Psychological Explanation and Church’s Thesis
  • 4. On the Dissimilarity of Behaviors
  • 5. Computers, Determinism, and Action
  • 6. Summary to the Main Argument from Analogy
  • V / Functionalism, Rationalism, and Cognitivism
  • 1. Psychological and Automaton States
  • 2. Behaviorism
  • 3. Neorationalism
  • 4. Cognitivism
  • VI / The Logic of Acceptance
  • 1. Universals, Gestalten, and Taking
  • 2. Acceptance
  • 3. Expectation
  • 4. Family Resemblances
  • VII / Perception
  • 1. Perceptual Objects
  • 2. Perception Perspectives
  • VIII / Belief and Desire
  • 1. Perceptual Belief
  • 2. Desire
  • 3. A Model of Desire
  • 4. Standing Belief — Representation
  • IX / Reference and Truth
  • 1. Pure Semantics versus User Semantics
  • 2. Belief Sentences
  • 3. Denotation
  • 4. A Theory of Truth
  • 5. Adequacy
  • X / Toward Meaning
  • 1. Linguistic Meaning
  • 2. Propositions
  • 3. Intensions of Names and Predicates
  • XI / Psychological Theory and the Mindbrain Problem
  • 1. Realism and Reduction
  • 2. Explanation
  • 3. Free Will
  • 4. Mental Occurrents
  • Table of Figures, Formulas, and Tables
  • Notes.

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