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by Paul M. Churchland (Author) "The curiosity of Man, and the cunning of his Reason, have revealed much of what Nature held hidden ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 196 pages
  • Publisher: MIT Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 Jan 1988)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0262530740
  • ISBN-13: 978-0262530743
  • Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 14.6 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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In "Matter and Consciousness, "Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new edition incorporates the striking developments that have taken place in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence and notes their expanding relevance to philosophical issues. Churchland organizes and clarifies the new theoretical and experimental results of the natural sciences for a wider philosophical audience, observing that this research bears directly on questions concerning the basic elements of cognitive activity and their implementation in real physical systems. (How is it, he asks, that living creatures perform some cognitive tasks so swiftly and easily, where computers do them only badly or not at all?) Most significant for philosophy, Churchland asserts, is the support these results tend to give to the reductive and the eliminative versions of materialism. Paul M. Churchland is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. A Bradford Book.

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