A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of ScienceIf we are to solve the central problems in the philosophy of science, Paul Churchland argues, we must draw heavily on the resources of the emerging sciences of the mind-brain. A Neurocomputationial Perspective illustrates the fertility of the concepts and data drawn from the study of the brain and of artificial networks that model the brain. These concepts bring unexpected coherence to scattered issues in the philosophy of science, new solutions to old philosophical problems, and new possibilities for the enterprise of science itself. |
Contents
Chapter | 5 |
Why Folk Psychology Might Really Be False | 6 |
Chapter 2 | 23 |
Functionalism and Methodology | 44 |
Jacksons Knowledge Argument | 61 |
Converting a ThirdPerson Account into a FirstPerson Account | 74 |
Some Reductive Strategies in Cognitive Neurobiology | 77 |
Cortex with More than Two Layers | 96 |
Chapter 9 | 153 |
Some Functional Properties of Brainlike Networks | 171 |
The Naturalization of Epistemology | 188 |
A PDP Approach | 197 |
Inference to the Best Explanation | 218 |
Chapter 11 | 231 |
Automated Science | 250 |
The Semantics of Observation Predicates | 271 |
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