Description |
ix, 525 pages : illustrations, portraits |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
pt. 1. Persons: What makes an individual?: Divided brains -divided minds? / Donald MacKay -- Divided minds and the nature of persons / Derek Parfit -- Schizophrenia and human individuality / Gordon Claridge -- Individuality / Hans Eysenck -- Innate and cultural aspects of human non-verbal communication / Michael Argyle -- Why psychoanalysis is not a science / Anthony Storr -- Psychoanalytic explanation, with special reference to historical material / Brian Farrell -- pt. 2. Animals: How do they think, and do they have minds?: Animal minds / Nicholas Mackintosh -- Thoughts without words / Herbert Terrace -- Description and evaluation of animal emotion / Stephen Clark -- Minding and mattering / Marian Stamp Dawkins -- Evolution of animal signals / John Krebs -- Intelligence: a comparative perspective / Euan Macphail -- Intelligence -a reply to Euan Macphail / Jennifer Hornsby -- pt. 3. Machines: Could they have minds?: Minds and brains without programs / John Searle -- In defence of artificial intelligence -a reply to John Searle / Richard Gregory -- How could consciousness arise from the computations of the brain? / Philip Johnson-Laird -- Minds, machines and mathematics / Roger Penrose -- Could a machine be conscious? / Colin McGinn -- pt. 4. Ideas: how brains could have minds, and why: Brain and mind, two or one? / Sir John Eccles -- Neuropsychology and the nature of consciousness / Larry Weiskrantz -- Mind-brain relation: a psuedoproblem? / János Szentágothai -- 'Mindness' as a functional state of the brain / Rodolfo Llinás -- Biological role of consciousness / Horace Barlow -- Inner eye of consciousness / Nicholas Humphrey -- Nature of conscious awareness / John Crook -- pt. 5. Problems: What is mind?: Can neuroscience contribute to philosophy? / Ed Hundert -- Order of the mind / Paul Seabright -- Mind, brain and self-conscious mind / Ted Honderich -- Mind-brain identity as a scientific hypothesis: a second look / Jeffrey Gray -- Languages, minds and brains / Peter Hacker -- Grammar in your head / Roy Harris. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Subject |
Intelligence. |
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Intelligence artificielle. |
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Conscience. |
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Consciousness.
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Consciousness. |
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Brain.
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Brain. |
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Intellect.
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Intellect. |
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Thought and thinking.
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Thought and thinking. |
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Artificial intelligence. |
Indexed Term |
Man Mind related to brain |
Subject |
Artificial intelligence.
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Indexed Term |
Man Brain related to mind |
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Intellect. |
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Conscience. |
Added Author |
Blakemore, Colin.
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Greenfield, Susan.
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ISBN |
0631146229 : $19.95 (U.S.) |
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9780631146223 |
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