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Title: The Churchlands and Their Critics (Philosophers and Their Critics, 7) by Robert N. McCauley, Paul M. Churchland, Patricia S. Churchland ISBN: 0-631-18969-6 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: May, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another instructive gem in a great series
Comment: This book is one of a half dozen or so in a superb series covering different contemporary philosophers and their critics in a single volume. I find this format particularly instructive. A dialog of philosophers and their critics doesn't resolve their differences, but it does go a very long way toward clarifying those differences. The philosophers covered by this series are particularly relevant to our understanding of the mind. The philosophers covered in this series are those who have made very important contributions relevant across different domains of psychology, brain science, and philosophy of mind. Books in the series cover Dennett, Searle, Dretske, Fodor, Quine, and others.
For those like me who are interested in the boundary of brain science and philosophy *and* learn particularly well from dialogs rather than monologs, this back and forth with the Churchlands will be a real treat. The Churchlands raise a number of central and fundamental issues relevant to our understanding of the human mind in their work.
This book contains essays presenting key criticisms of the Churchlands' influential and controversial approach to these issues. The Churchlands respond to these criticisms in a measured way that clarifies the areas of agreement as well as the areas of difference. For me, this book seems to stand by itself as a useful introduction to what is unique about the Churchlands' approach. It is a hard read as a one volume introduction to their approach, but serves the purpose with some effort.
The issues covered explore the way the Churchlands' approach draws from and differs from other approaches in cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and neural network modelling, applied to explanations of moral theory, methodology, semantics, neurocomputation, and folk psychology.
Most of this book is readable by interested non-specialists, although some of the sections are more technical than others, particularly when the specifics of PDP models and the neurocomputational approach are addressed. This difficulty is only found a a couple of the chapters.
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Title: Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy by Patricia Smith Churchland ISBN: 026253200X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 02 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind Series) by David J. Chalmers ISBN: 0195117891 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness by Gerald M. Edelman ISBN: 0300102291 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 10 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio ISBN: 0151005575 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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