The Chinese Room

Author : Vivian Connell
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789128951
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Room written by Vivian Connell and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Room, first published in 1942, is a novel combining a mysterious string of anonymous letters with the sex lives of the main characters: the exploits of Nicholas, a banker; the sexual awakening of his wife, Muriel; and Nicholas’ affair with Sidone, his secretary and mistress. Set in England in the 1940s, The Chinese Room was very popular despite attempts to censor the book, and underwent numerous reprintings into the 1960s.

Author : John Preston
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0198250576
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Views Into the Chinese Room written by John Preston and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 19 specially written essays by leading scientists and philosophers, this volume is a state-of-the-art work on the foundations of cognitive science.

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674267214
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minds, Brains and Science written by John R. Searle and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minds, Brains and Science takes up just the problems that perplex people, and it does what good philosophy always does: it dispels the illusion caused by the specious collision of truths. How do we reconcile common sense and science? John Searle argues vigorously that the truths of common sense and the truths of science are both right and that the only question is how to fit them together. Searle explains how we can reconcile an intuitive view of ourselves as conscious, free, rational agents with a universe that science tells us consists of mindless physical particles. He briskly and lucidly sets out his arguments against the familiar positions in the philosophy of mind, and details the consequences of his ideas for the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, questions of action and free will, and the philosophy of the social sciences.

Author : Vivian Connell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569802649
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Room written by Vivian Connell and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Censorship halted the original distribution of this suspenseful tale of a forbidden romance.

Author : Robert A. Wilson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262731447
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) written by Robert A. Wilson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-09-04 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s the cognitive sciences have offered multidisciplinary ways of understanding the mind and cognition. The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) is a landmark, comprehensive reference work that represents the methodological and theoretical diversity of this changing field. At the core of the encyclopedia are 471 concise entries, from Acquisition and Adaptationism to Wundt and X-bar Theory. Each article, written by a leading researcher in the field, provides an accessible introduction to an important concept in the cognitive sciences, as well as references or further readings. Six extended essays, which collectively serve as a roadmap to the articles, provide overviews of each of six major areas of cognitive science: Philosophy; Psychology; Neurosciences; Computational Intelligence; Linguistics and Language; and Culture, Cognition, and Evolution. For both students and researchers, MITECS will be an indispensable guide to the current state of the cognitive sciences.

Author : Wilfried Brauer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540637462
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Computer Science written by Wilfried Brauer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-10-24 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Content Description #Dedicated to Wilfried Brauer.#Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140518308X
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving beyond traditional cyberculture studies paradigms in several key ways, this comprehensive collection marks the increasing convergence of cyberculture with other forms of media, and with all aspects of our lives in a digitized world. Includes essential readings for both the student and scholar of a diverse range of fields, including new and digital media, internet studies, digital arts and culture studies, network culture studies, and the information society Incorporates essays by both new and established scholars of digital cultures, including Andy Miah, Eugene Thacker, Lisa Nakamura, Chris Hables Gray, Sonia Livingstone and Espen Aarseth Created explicitly for the undergraduate student, with comprehensive introductions to each section that outline the main ideas of each essay Explores the many facets of cyberculture, and includes sections on race, politics, gender, theory, gaming, and space The perfect companion to Nayar's Introduction to New Media and Cyberculture

Author : Karl Leidlmair
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402099924
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Cognitivism written by Karl Leidlmair and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a basic perplexity in our times. On the one hand, we ?nd a blind trust in technology and rationalism. In our neo-liberalistically dominated world only what can be rapidly exploited and commercialized seems to count. The only opposing reaction to this kind of rationalism is an extreme rejection of all kinds of reasoning, and sometimes attendant religious fundamentalism. But instead of re?ecting on the limits and possibilites of reasoning, dialogue is replaced by a demagogic struggle between cultures. One cause of the blind trust in technology is misunderstandings about the sign- cance and the application of theories in the reception of the so-called Enlightenment. The Enlightenment is essentially characterized by two forces: (i) the conception of society as a social contract and (ii) the new science (New- nian physics, etc.). But as a result we lost ground: Atomistic individualism nourished the illusion of a self-contained ego prior to man’s entering into a shared inter-subjective world. And in the new science, our constructions of reality became autonomous and indep- dent of our interventions. Thus we became caught in the inherent dynamism of our computational constructions of reality. Science, as it is applied today, operates with far too simple parameters and model-theoretic constructions – erroneously taking the latter (the models) as literal descriptions of reality.

Author : Pete Mandik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441176004
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Key Terms in Philosophy of Mind written by Pete Mandik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, accessible, easy-to-navigate introduction to the key terms, concepts, thinkers and texts in philosophy of mind.

Author : Max Emil Deutsch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262327384
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Intuitive written by Max Emil Deutsch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A defense of traditional philosophical method against challenges from practitioners of “experimental philosophy.” In The Myth of the Intuitive, Max Deutsch defends the methods of analytic philosophy against a recent empirical challenge mounted by the practitioners of experimental philosophy (xphi). This challenge concerns the extent to which analytic philosophy relies on intuition—in particular, the extent to which analytic philosophers treat intuitions as evidence in arguing for philosophical conclusions. Experimental philosophers say that analytic philosophers place a great deal of evidential weight on people's intuitions about hypothetical cases and thought experiments. Deutsch argues forcefully that this view of traditional philosophical method is a myth, part of “metaphilosophical folklore,” and he supports his argument with close examinations of results from xphi and of a number of influential arguments in analytic philosophy. Analytic philosophy makes regular use of hypothetical examples and thought experiments, but, Deutsch writes, philosophers argue for their claims about what is true or not true in these examples and thought experiments. It is these arguments, not intuitions, that are treated as evidence for the claims. Deutsch discusses xphi and some recent xphi studies; critiques a variety of other metaphilosophical claims; examines such famous arguments as Gettier's refutation of the JTB (justified true belief) theory and Kripke's Gödel Case argument against descriptivism about proper names, and shows that they rely on reasoning rather than intuition; and finds existing critiques of xphi, the “Multiple Concepts” and “Expertise” replies, to be severely lacking.