The dissolution of mind : a fable of how experience gives rise to cognition

Author(s)

• Vilarroya, Oscar

Bibliographic Information

The dissolution of mind : a fable of how experience gives rise to cognition

Oscar Vilarroya

（Value inquiry book series, v. 128）

Rodopi, 2002

Note

Includes index

Bibliography: p. [207]-227

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book presents an original thesis about the notion of sensory experience and of the mind's architecture, which is grounded in current trends in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Presented in the form of a dialogue, the book explores some of the psychological and philosophical consequences that the author derives from his proposal.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Editorial Foreword by Oscar Vilarroya Guest Foreword by Adolf Tobena Preface Acknowledgments ONE Alice's Perplexities TWO Non-Professor O's Aphorisms THREE Monday. On How No Superfluous Experiences Exist FOUR Tuesday. On How to Get by Without Concepts FIVE Wednesday. On How to Live in a Virtual World SIX Thursday. On How Words Lost Their Meaning SEVEN Friday. On How to Communicate Without Information EIGHT Saturday. On How Living Dissolves the Mind NINE Sunday. "Tap-Tapping" the Compass Bibliography About the Author Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA61271344
• ISBN:
  • 9042013702
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: xxiv, 232 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA22981747