On the contrary : critical essays, 1987-1997 / Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland.

Paul and Patricia Churchland take on their criticsâ__with verve, combativeness, and generosity.

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Churchland, Paul M., 1942-
Other Authors: Churchland, Patricia Smith
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Folk psychology
  • 2. Theory, taxonomy, and methodology : a reply to haldane's "understanding folk"
  • 3. Evaluating our self-conception
  • 4. Activation vectors vs. propositional attitudes : how the brain represents reality
  • 5. Could a machine think?
  • 6. Intertheoretic reduction : a neuroscientist's field guide
  • 7. Conceptual similarity across sensory and
  • 8. Betty crocker's theory of consciousness
  • 9. The rediscovery of light
  • 10. Knowing qualia : a reply to jackson
  • 11. Recent work on consciousness : philosophical, theoretical, and empirical
  • 12. Filling in : why dennett is wrong
  • 13. Gaps in penrose's toilings
  • 14. Feeling reasons
  • 15. A deeper unity : some feyerabendian themes in neurocomputational form
  • 16. Reply to glymour
  • 17. To transform the phenomena : feyerabend, proliferation, and recurrent neural networks
  • 18. How parapsychology could become a science.