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Mental Symbols: A Defence of the Classical Theory of Mind

By Peter Novák (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1997
ISBN
978-94-010-6374-6, 978-94-011-5632-5
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-5632-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7244442 bytes)
Series
Studies in Cognitive Systems 19
Edition
1
Pages
267\283
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Philosophy of Mind; Interdisciplinary Studies; Epi

Description

Mental Symbols is an essay on mind and meaning, on the biological implementation of mental symbols, on the architecture of mind, and on the correct construal of logical properties and relations of symbols, including implication and inference. The book argues against the main contemporary trends in the cognitive sciences, preferring rather the classical early-modern tradition. The author looks at some logical paradoxes in the light of that tradition, and offers a novel answer to the problem of the biological implementation of the mind in the brain.

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