Author | Fetzer, James H. author |
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Title | Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are not Machines [electronic resource] / by James H. Fetzer |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0973-7 |
Descript | 352 p. online resource |
Prologue -- 1. Minds and Machines: Behaviorism, Dualism and Beyond -- I: Semiotic Systems -- 2. Primitive Concepts: Habits, Conventions, and Laws -- 3. Signs and Minds: An Introduction to the Theory of Semiotic Systems -- 4. Language and Mentality: Computational, Representational, and Dispositional Conceptions -- II: Computers and Cognition -- 5. Mental Algorithms: Are Minds Computational Systems? -- 6. What Makes Connectionism Different? A Criticial Review of Philosophy and Connectionist Theory -- 7. People are Not Computers: (Most) Thought processes are Not Computational Procedures -- III: Computer Epistemology -- 8. Program Verification: The Very Idea -- 9. Philosophical Aspects of Program Verification -- 10. Philosophy and Computer Science: Reflections on the Program Verification Debate -- Epilogue -- 11. Computer Reliability and Public Policy: Limits of Knowledge of Computer-Based Systems -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects