Author: Churchland, Paul M.
Title: Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind.
Description: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 1988. Paperback. 196 pp. English text. Condition : very good. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Churchland organizes and clarifies the new theoretical and experimental results in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence for a wider philosophical audience, observing that this research bears directly on questions concerning the basic elements of cognitive activity and their implementation in real physical systems. (How is it, he asks, that living creatures perform some cognitive tasks so swiftly and easily, where computers do them only badly or not at all?) Most significant for philosophy, Churchland asserts, is the support these results tend to give to the reductive and the eliminative versions of materialism. ISBN 9780262530743.

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