On the contrary : critical essays, 1987-1997 / Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland.
Material type: TextCopyright date: �1998Description: 1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585021848
- 9780585021843
- 9780262270335
- 0262270331
- 9780262531658
- 0262531658
- 9780262032544
- 0262032546
- 128/.2 21
- BD418.3 .C473 1998eb
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-343) and index.
Print version record.
1. Folk psychology -- 2. Theory, taxonomy, and methodology : a reply to haldane's "understanding folk" -- 3. Evaluating our self-conception -- 4. Activation vectors vs. propositional attitudes : how the brain represents reality -- 5. Could a machine think? -- 6. Intertheoretic reduction : a neuroscientist's field guide -- 7. Conceptual similarity across sensory and -- 8. Betty crocker's theory of consciousness -- 9. The rediscovery of light -- 10. Knowing qualia : a reply to jackson -- 11. Recent work on consciousness : philosophical, theoretical, and empirical -- 12. Filling in : why dennett is wrong -- 13. Gaps in penrose's toilings -- 14. Feeling reasons -- 15. A deeper unity : some feyerabendian themes in neurocomputational form -- 16. Reply to glymour -- 17. To transform the phenomena : feyerabend, proliferation, and recurrent neural networks -- 18. How parapsychology could become a science.
Paul and Patricia Churchland take on their critics�a__with verve, combativeness, and generosity.
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