The relationship between intelligent systems and their environment is at the forefront of research in cognitive science. The Unexplained Intellect: Complexity, Time, and the Metaphysics of Embodied Thought shows how computational complexity theory and analytic metaphysics can together illuminate long-standing questions about the importance of that relationship. It argues that the most basic facts about a mind cannot just be facts about mental states, but must include facts about the dynamic, interactive mental occurrences that take place when a creature encounters its environment.
In a discussion that is organised into four clear parts, Christopher Mole begins by examining the mathematics of computational complexity, arguing that the results from complexity theory create a puzzle about how human intelligence could possibly be explained. Mole then uses the tools of analytic metaphysics to draw a distinction between mental states and dynamic mental entities, and shows that, in order to answer the complexity-theoretic puzzle, dynamic entities must be understood to be among the most basic of mental phenomena. The picture of the mind that emerges has important implications for our understanding of intelligence, of action, and of the mind's relationship to the passage of time.
The Unexplained Intellect is the first book to bring insights from the mathematics of computational complexity to bear in an enquiry into the metaphysics of the mind. It will be essential reading for scholars and researchers in the philosophy of mind and psychology, for cognitive scientists, and for those interested in the philosophical importance of complexity.
Автор: Cleugh Название: Time and its Importance in Modern Thought ISBN: 1138393983 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138393981 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 19906.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1937. This classic work on the philosophy of time looks at the psychology, physics and logic of time before investigating the views of Kant, Bergson, Alexander, McTaggart and Dunne. The second half of the book contains more indepth consideration of prediction, the concepts of past and future, and reality.
Автор: L.N. Oaklander Название: The Importance of Time ISBN: 9048158419 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048158416 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27251.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Proceedings of the Philosophy of Time Society, 1995-2000
Автор: Altamirano, Marco Название: Time, technology and the philosophy of nature ISBN: 074869157X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780748691579 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 15840.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Brings Deleuze and Guattari`s work into conversation with the philosophy of nature. As the spatial orientation of the philosophy of nature is critiqued, this book shows that a philosophy of time is a more adequate guide to nature. It reformulates the philosophy of nature in terms of time and technology.
Автор: Altamirano Marco Название: Time, Technology and Environment ISBN: 1474425798 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474425797 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3958.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Marco Altamirano critiques the modern concept of nature to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. He goes on to deploy conceptual resources excavated from Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Leroi-Gourhan to show how technology, which bypasses the nature-artifice distinction, is an essential dimension of the philosophy of nature.
Автор: A. Melnick Название: Space, Time, and Thought in Kant ISBN: 9401075328 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401075329 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 35218.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Jones Название: A New Law of Thought and its Logical Bearings ISBN: 110762665X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107626652 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4118.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones (1848-1922) was an English logician and contemporary of Bertrand Russell. In this book, originally published in 1911, she argues for the existence of another fundamental law of thought to join the Law of Contradiction and the Law of Excluded Middle: the Law of Significant Assertion.
Описание: Timothy Sprigge was one of the leading exponents of philosophical idealism in the last fifty years. The idealist worldview, long unfashionable, has been coming back into favour, and Sprigge`s work has found a new readership. These selected essays focus on the view of consciousness on which his unique system of metaphysics and ethics is based.
Описание: The problems stimulate, the stories of their successful solutions inspire, and their applications are wide.The literature abounds with books dedicated to mathematical problems - collections of problems, hints on how to solve them, and even histories of the paths to the solutions of some famous ones.
Описание: This book offers a uniquely process relational oriented Chinese approach to inter-religious dialogue called Chinese Harmonism. The key features of Chinese harmonism are peaceful co-existence, mutual transformation, and openness to change. As developed with help from Whiteheadian process thought, Chinese harmonism provides a middle way between particularism and universalism, showing how diversity can exist within unity. Chinese harmonism is open to similarities among religions, but it also emphasizes that differences among religions can be complementary rather than contradictory. Thus Chinese harmonism implies an attitude of respect for others and a willingness to learn from others, without reducing the other to one’s own identity: that is, to sameness. By emphasizing the possibility of complementariness, a process oriented Chinese harmonism avoids a dichotomy between universalism and particularism represented respectively by John Hick and S. Mark Heim, and will make room for a genuine openness and do justice to the culturally and religiously “other.”
Описание: Challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. This book argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts.
Автор: Fumerton Название: Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism ISBN: 1107037875 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107037878 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Fumerton makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of the knowledge argument for dualism - the observation that we can know the truth that we exist without knowing any truths about the physical world. The book will be of great interest to those studying epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
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