The unifying theme of these thirteen essays is understanding. What is it? What does it take to have it? What does it presuppose in what can be understood? In the first group of essays John Haugeland addresses mind and intelligence. Intelligibility comes to the fore in a set of "metaphysical" pieces on analog and digital systems and supervenience. In the third set of papers Haugeland elaborates and then undermines a battery of common presuppositions about the foundational notions of intentionality and representation. Finally, the fourth and most recent group of essays confronts the essential character of understanding in relation to what is understood. The necessary interdependence between personality and intelligence is developed and explained, specifically in the conditions of the possibility of objective scientific knowledge.
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Researchers and students in cognitive science and philosophy of mind will welcome this collection of 13 essays...A 'must' for any serious collection in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. (R. M. Stewart Choice )
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John Haugeland was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He was the author of Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea and editor of Mind Design and Mind Design II.
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This collection of Haugeland's work just brilliant. The range of topics is amazing, from AI and cognitive science to constitution and existential committment.As usual, Haugeland is both insightful and rigorous, philosophically deep and also humorous. He combines what's best in both the analytical and the phenomenological traditions. This is what a lot more philosophy ought to look like in the coming decades. (Now he needs to give us a book on Heidegger.)
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This is not a book to read, it is really a book to study. Unlike Haugeland`s great "AI: the very idea" or "mind design", this book carries a deep philosophical tone, and will not be readily understood by the same audience.If you're in for a deep dive down the philosophy of mind, go for it.
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- The Sciences of the Artificial - 3rd Edition by Herbert A. Simon on page 209, and Back Matter
- RC Series Bundle: The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Routledge Classics) by Karl Popper on page 351, and Back Matter
- Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition: Foundations (Volume 1) by David E. Rumelhart in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on page 352, and Back Matter
- Cognitive Science (Handbook of Perception and Cognition, Second Edition) by Benjamin Martin Bly in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett on page 219, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Philosophy of Mental Representation by Hugh Clapin in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Dennett's Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment by Don Ross on page 145, page 372, and page 387
- Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings by Jose Bermudez in Front Matter, and page 213
- Knowledge and Its Place in Nature by Hilary Kornblith on page 75, and Back Matter
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