The mechanization of the mind: on the origins of cognitive science
The self-mechanized mind. The cybernetic credo -- Cybernetics and cognitivism -- The question of humanism -- History of science vs. history of ideas. 1. The fascination with models. The virtue of models -- Manipulating representations -- The turning machine -- Knowing as simulating. 2. A poorly love...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Princeton
Princeton University Press
©2000
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| In: | Anno: 2000 |
| Periodico/Rivista: | New French thought
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Girard, René 1923-2015
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Cognitive Science
B Philosophy & Social Aspects / SCIENCE B Cognitiewetenschap B Artificial Intelligence B Cognitive science ; History B Scienza cognitiva B History B Sciences cognitives - Histoire B Cybernetics B Cognitive Science history B Rappresentazione della conoscenza B Simulazione computerizzata B Filosofia della mente B Cognitive Science History B Cybernetica B Kunstmatige intelligentie B Electronic books |
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| Riepilogo: | The self-mechanized mind. The cybernetic credo -- Cybernetics and cognitivism -- The question of humanism -- History of science vs. history of ideas. 1. The fascination with models. The virtue of models -- Manipulating representations -- The turning machine -- Knowing as simulating. 2. A poorly loved parent. A new scienza nuova? -- Mechanizing the human -- Brain/mind/machine -- McCulloch's neurons -- Connectionism vs. Cognitivism -- Von Neumann's machine. 3. The limits of interdisciplinarity. The macy conferences -- The cyberneticians in debate -- Unifying the work of the mind -- The physicalist temptation. 4. Philosophy and cognition. Naturalizing epistemology -- The obstacle of intentionality -- Brentano betrayed -- The missed encounter with phenomenology -- A subjectless philosophy of mind -- McCulloch vs. Wiener 5. From information to complexity. Information and physicalism -- Between form, chance, and meaning -- Cooperation and cognition -- Cybernetic totalities -- System and autonomy -- Complexity: the model becomes blurred. 6. Aspects of a failure. Learning about complexity -- The Ashby case, or the return to metaphysics -- Subjectless processes -- The missed rendezvous with the human sciences. "In March 1946, some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century - among them John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, and Walter Pitts - gathered at the Beekman Hotel in New York City with the aim of constructing a science of mental behavior that would resolve at last the ancient philosophical problem of mind and matter. The legacy of their collaboration is known today as cognitive science." "As Dupuy explains, the founders of cognitive science - or, as they called it, "cybernetics"--Drew passion and energy from two convictions: that the mind operates like a machine and that physical laws explain how nature can appear to have meaning. Armed with these convictions, they laid the foundations not only for cognitive science but also artificial intelligence, and foreshadowed the development of chaos theory, complexity theory, and a variety of other major scientific and philosophical breakthroughs. Today, their ideas speak directly to controversies that rage between cognitivists and connectionists, eliminative materialists and Wittgensteinians, functionalists and antireductionists. However, despite their genuine achievements, the cyberneticians had too much confidence in the power of their theories and made serious mistakes that led the next generation of thinkers to ignore their work. The development of a scientific theory of mind was thus significantly delayed."--Jacket |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-199) and index |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 210 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4008-2381-9 1-4008-2381-1 |
