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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44026149 Title: The mechanization of the mind : on the origins of cognitive science Author: Jean-Pierre Dupuy Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2000. ISBN/ISSN: 0691025746 9780691025742 OCLC:44026149

  
  

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The mechanization of the mind : on the origins of cognitive science

Author:	Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Publisher:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
Series:	New French thought.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"In March 1946, some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century - among them John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, and Walter Pitts - gathered at the Beekman Hotel in New York City with the aim of constructing a science of mental behavior that would resolve at last the ancient philosophical problem of mind and matter. The legacy of their collaboration is known today as cognitive science." "As Dupuy explains, the founders of cognitive science - or, as they called it, "cybernetics"--Drew passion and energy from two convictions: that the mind operates like a machine and that physical laws explain how nature can appear to have meaning. Armed with these convictions, they laid the foundations not only for cognitive science but also artificial intelligence, and foreshadowed the development of chaos theory, complexity theory, and a variety of other major scientific and philosophical breakthroughs. Today, their ideas speak directly to controversies that rage between cognitivists and connectionists, eliminative materialists and Wittgensteinians, functionalists and antireductionists. However, despite their genuine achievements, the cyberneticians had too much confidence in the power of their theories and made serious mistakes that led the next generation of thinkers to ignore their work. The development of a scientific theory of mind was thus significantly delayed."--Jacket.  Read more...
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Subjects	Cognitive science -- History. Cognitive Science -- history. Sciences cognitives -- Histoire. View all subjects
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