Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 321 pages
- Published by: Bradford Book March 1990
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0262031515
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0262031516
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Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Review
"A bold and unified account encompassing an attitude to belief, desire, subjective experience, learning, grasp of theories and explanatory understanding. A wide-ranging, daring and eloquently expressed vision. I commend Paul Churchland's book as an achievement of breadth and poetry in a discipline too often breeding only stultifying narrowness."
—
Andy Clark,
Times Higher Education Supplement
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Product Description
If 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.
Paul M. Churchland is Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Cognitive Science Faculty at the University of California at San Diego.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science (Paperback)
If you're interested in a concise and empirically grounded look at how organisms experience themselves and the world, this is a definite. There is also a nice look into the future with Paul speculating what may come from the study of neuroengineering with humans. This book is especially appealing in light of the fact that our population is being exposed to the novel findings in medicine, neuroscience, and all other fields that play a part in the NC perspective. If you're interested in this book, you may also want to check out the movie, "AI."