How can the human mind represent the external world? What is is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Does it help to think of the mind as a kind of machine?
Tim Crane sets out to answer questions like these in a lively and straightforward way, presuming no prior knowledge of philosophy or related disciplines. Since its first publication in 1995, The Mechanical Mind has introduced thousands of people to some of the most important ideas in contemporary philosophy of mind. Tim Crane explains some fundamental ideas that cut across philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence and cognitive science: what the mind-body problem is; what a computer is and how it works; what thoughts are and how computers and minds might have them. He examines different models of the mind from dualist to eliminativist, and questions whether there can be thought without language and whether the mind is subject to the same causal lsaws as natural phenomena. The result is a fascinating exploration of the theories and arguments surrounding the notions of thought and representation.
The edition has been fully revised and updated, and includes a new chapter on consciousness and new sections on modularity and evolutionary psychology. There are also guides for further reading, a chronology and a new glossary of terms such as mentalese, connectionism and the homonculus fallacy. The Mechanical Mind is accessible to the general reader as well as students, and anyone interested in the mechanism of our minds.
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Interesting and accessible!
评分一半講representation本身的問題，一半講電腦如何處理representation。一些例子很生動。
评分一半講representation本身的問題，一半講電腦如何處理representation。一些例子很生動。
评分不是一本典型的心靈哲學導論，但的確是一本以心靈以及意識問題為主題的入門讀物。而處處都有鶴先生自己的洞見，以及行文非常清晰嚴謹，是哲學寫作的典範。有空一定把第三版找來讀讀。
评分Interesting and accessible!
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