Plato`s Camera - How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals
How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals
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In Platos Camera, eminent philosopher Paul Churchland offers a novel account of how the brain constructs a representation--or takes a picture--of the universes timeless categorical and dynamical structure. This construction process, which begins at birth,...
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In Platos Camera, eminent philosopher Paul Churchland offers a novel account of how the brain constructs a representation--or takes a picture--of the universes timeless categorical and dynamical structure. This construction process, which begins at birth, yields the enduring background conceptual framework with which we will interpret our sensory experience for the rest of our lives. But, as even Plato knew, to make singular perceptual judgments requires that we possess an antecedent framework of abstract categories to which any perceived particular can be relevantly assimilated. How that background framework is assembled in the first place is the motivating mystery, and the primary target, of Churchlands book. His account draws on the best of the recent philosophical literature on semantic theory, and on the most recent results from cognitive neurobiology. The resulting story throws immediate light on issues that have been at the center of philosophy for at least two millennia, such as how the mind represents reality, both in its ephemeral and in its timeless dimensions.
Autoren-Porträt von Paul M. Churchland
Paul M. Churchland is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. His the author of The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul (MIT Press), Neurophilosophy at Work, and several other books.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul M. Churchland
- 2012, 312 Seiten, 60 Abbildungen, Maße: 16,1 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: MIT Press
- ISBN-10: 0262016869
- ISBN-13: 9780262016865
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Englisch
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"Paul Churchland continues, quite successfully, his bit to persuade the reader that the classical conception of the workings of the brain should be substituted by a construal of the brain as a dynamic neural network...If a book's success is judged both by the scope of its material and by the amount of novelty it brings, then Churchland's book is an unqualified success." -- Metascience "Passionately argued and inspirational...Churchland's book spans several seldom-bridged topics in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science, and does so with wit and intelligence from its provocative neurocomputational perspective." -- Minds & Machines
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