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Brainstorms : [electronic resource] philosophical essays on mind and psychology / Daniel C. Dennett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montgomery, Vt. : Bradford Books, c1978.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxii, 353 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0897060016
  • 9780897060011
  • 0897060024 (pbk.)
  • 9780897060028 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153
LOC classification:
  • BF38 .D46
Other classification:
  • 08.36
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I. Intentional explanation and attributions of mentality. 1. Intentional systems. 2. Reply to Arbib and Gunderson. 3. Brain writing and mind reading -- pt. II. The nature of theory in psychology. 4. Skinner skinned. 5. Why the law of effect will not go away. 6. A cure for the common code? 7. Artificial intelligence as philosophy and as psychology -- pt. III. Objects of consciousness and the nature of experience. 8. Are dreams experiences? 9. Toward a cognitive theory of consciousness. 10. Two approaches to mental images. 11. Why you can't make a computer that feels pain -- pt. IV. Free will and personhood. 12. Mechanism and responsibility. 13. The abilities of men and machines. 14. Conditions of personhood. 15. On giving libertarians what they say they want. 16. How to change your mind. 17. Where am I?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. Intentional explanation and attributions of mentality. 1. Intentional systems. 2. Reply to Arbib and Gunderson. 3. Brain writing and mind reading -- pt. II. The nature of theory in psychology. 4. Skinner skinned. 5. Why the law of effect will not go away. 6. A cure for the common code? 7. Artificial intelligence as philosophy and as psychology -- pt. III. Objects of consciousness and the nature of experience. 8. Are dreams experiences? 9. Toward a cognitive theory of consciousness. 10. Two approaches to mental images. 11. Why you can't make a computer that feels pain -- pt. IV. Free will and personhood. 12. Mechanism and responsibility. 13. The abilities of men and machines. 14. Conditions of personhood. 15. On giving libertarians what they say they want. 16. How to change your mind. 17. Where am I?

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