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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean-Pierre Dupuy; M B DeBevoise |
ISBN: | 0691025746 9780691025742 |
OCLC Number: | 44026149 |
Language Note: | Translation of: Aux origines des sciences cognitives. |
Description: | xiv, 210 pages ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | The self-mechanized mind. The cybernetic credo -- Cybernetics and cognitivism -- The question of humanism -- History of science vs. history of ideas. 1. The fascination with models. The virtue of models -- Manipulating representations -- The turning machine -- Knowing as simulating. 2. A poorly loved parent. A new scienza nuova? -- Mechanizing the human -- Brain/mind/machine -- McCulloch's neurons -- Connectionism vs. Cognitivism -- Von Neumann's machine. 3. The limits of interdisciplinarity. The macy conferences -- The cyberneticians in debate -- Unifying the work of the mind -- The physicalist temptation. 4. Philosophy and cognition. Naturalizing epistemology -- The obstacle of intentionality -- Brentano betrayed -- The missed encounter with phenomenology -- A subjectless philosophy of mind -- McCulloch vs. Wiener 5. From information to complexity. Information and physicalism -- Between form, chance, and meaning -- Cooperation and cognition -- Cybernetic totalities -- System and autonomy -- Complexity: the model becomes blurred. 6. Aspects of a failure. Learning about complexity -- The Ashby case, or the return to metaphysics -- Subjectless processes -- The missed rendezvous with the human sciences. |
Series Title: | New French thought. |
Other Titles: | Aux origines des sciences cognitives. |
Responsibility: | Jean-Pierre Dupuy ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise. |
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Abstract:
This work argues that one of the greatest intellectual mistakes of the past 50 years was for cognitive science to turn its back on its origins. The author examines these origins and demonstrates how they were to prefigure some of the most important developments of 20th century thought.
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[An] elegant and lucid work... A superb example of detective work in the history of ideas. -- Steven Poole The Guardian A healthy prescription for those engaged in advancing theories of cognition. -- igor Aleksander New Scientist A history, a map through tortuous scientific terrain, a high-level user's manual, and a gripping tale. -- Rodney M. J. Cotterill American Journal of Psychology Read more...
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