Mental symbols : a defence of the classical theory of mind

Author(s)

• Novak, Peter

Bibliographic Information

Mental symbols : a defence of the classical theory of mind

by Peter Novak

（Studies in cognitive systems, v. 19）

Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1997

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Fly in a Bottle. 1. Conservative Rationalism I. 2. The Idea as World and Will. 3. Sentence-Based Semantics. 4. Radical Empiricism I. 5. Radical Empiricism II. 6. Conservative Rationalism II. 7. The Classical Theory of Mind I. 8. The Classical Theory of Mind II. 9. The Classical Theory of Mind III. 10. The Tale of Russell's Paradox. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA32306955
• ISBN:
  • 0792343700
• LCCN: 96049054
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Dordrecht ; Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 266 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BD418.3
  • DC21 : 128/.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Philosophy of mind
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA04334781