Structuring Mind
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Structuring Mind
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Author : Sebastian Watzl
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Structuring Mind written by Sebastian Watzl and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Philosophy categories.
What is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? In an approach that engages with foundational topics in the philosophy of mind, the theory of action, psychology, and the neurosciences this book provides a unified and comprehensive answer to both questions. Sebastian Watzl shows that attention is a central structural feature of the mind. The first half of the book provides an account of the nature of attention. Attention is prioritizing, it consists in regulating priority structures. Attention is not another element of the mind, but constituted by structures that organize, integrate, and coordinate the parts of our mind. Attention thus integrates the perceptual and intellectual, the cognitive and motivational, and the epistemic and practical. The second half of the book concerns the relationship between attention and consciousness. Watzl argues that attentional structure shapes consciousness into what is central and what is peripheral. The center-periphery structure of consciousness cannot be reduced to the structure of how the world appears to the subject. What it is like for us thus goes beyond the way the world appears to us. On this basis, a new view of consciousness is offered. In each conscious experience we actively take a stance on the world we appear to encounter. It is in this sense that our conscious experience is our subjective perspective.
Levi Strauss On Religion
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Author : Paul-Francois Tremlett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-05
Levi Strauss On Religion written by Paul-Francois Tremlett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-05 with Religion categories.
Levi-Strauss, the 'father of modern anthropology', is one of the most influential thinkers of the Twentieth Century. His development of 'structuralism' - the identification of patterns of human cognition and behaviour - greatly influenced Althusser, Lacan, Foucault and Derrida. -Levi-Strauss on Religion- presents one of the only examinations of the importance of Levi-Strauss' thought and work to the study of religion. The book examines his methodology as well as his contributions to the study of kinship, totemism, and myth. The issues raised by Levi-Strauss' anthropological, political and philosophical texts are placed alongside contemporary debates in religious studies and the student is introduced to the thinkers and theories that informed his writings. This book will be invaluable to students of the anthropology and phenomenology of religion.
Structure Growth Of The Mind
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Author : William Mitchell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907
Structure Growth Of The Mind written by William Mitchell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with Mind and body categories.
Brain Mind And The Structure Of Reality
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Author : Paul L. Nunez
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-24
Brain Mind And The Structure Of Reality written by Paul L. Nunez and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-24 with Medical categories.
Does the brain create the mind, or is some external entity involved? This book synthesizes ideas borrowed from philosophy, religion, and science. Topics range widely from brain imagining of thought processes to quantum mechanics and the essential role of information in brains and physical systems.
A Neurocomputational Perspective
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Author : Paul M. Churchland
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1992
A Neurocomputational Perspective written by Paul M. Churchland and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Philosophy categories.
"A Bradford book."Includes index. Bibliography: p. [305]-313.
The Structure Of Intelligence
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Author : Ben Goertzel
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-07
The Structure Of Intelligence written by Ben Goertzel and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-07 with Psychology categories.
0. 0 Psychology versus Complex Systems Science Over the last century, psychology has become much less of an art and much more of a science. Philosophical speculation is out; data collection is in. In many ways this has been a very positive trend. Cognitive science (Mandler, 1985) has given us scientific analyses of a variety of intelligent behaviors: short-term memory, language processing, vision processing, etc. And thanks to molecular psychology (Franklin, 1985), we now have a rudimentary understanding of the chemical processes underlying personality and mental illness. However, there is a growing feeling-particularly among non-psychologists (see e. g. Sommerhoff, 1990) - that, with the new emphasis on data collection, something important has been lost. Very little attention is paid to the question of how it all fits together. The early psychologists, and the classical philosophers of mind, were concerned with the general nature of mentality as much as with the mechanisms underlying specific phenomena. But the new, scientific psychology has made disappointingly little progress toward the resolution of these more general questions. One way to deal with this complaint is to dismiss the questions themselves. After all, one might argue, a scientific psychology cannot be expected to deal with fuzzy philosophical questions that probably have little empirical signifi cance. It is interesting that behaviorists and cognitive scientists tend to be in agreement regarding the question of the overall structure of the mind.
L Vi Strauss On Religion
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Author : Paul-François Tremlett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008
L Vi Strauss On Religion written by Paul-François Tremlett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Levi-Strauss, linguistics and structuralism -- Kinship as communication -- The illusion of totemism -- Myths without meaning -- Structuralism, shamanism, and material culture -- The structure of nostalgia -- Levi-Strauss and the study of religions
Structure And Growth Of The Mind
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Author : W. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-26
Structure And Growth Of The Mind written by W. Mitchell and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with Psychology categories.
Excerpt from Structure and Growth of the Mind We bring to the study of the mind not merely an acquaintance with the facts of experience but an explanation of them, to which we have been introduced, and are bound, by no less tried an authority than our mother tongue. The explanation has been formed without debate, as if there were no alternative but to model the mind, its powers, and its working, on the ordinary notion of a physical thing. It has given us a good working knowledge of our own and other minds; and it is not set aside by excluding from psychology the problems that it undertakes. These are of two sorts: one concerning the causes, the other concerning the functions, of experience. It gives the causes of experience sometimes in physical, sometimes in mental terms; it gives the mental causes sometimes as faculties, sometimes as experience; it regards the faculties as forces acting together or against one another; and it regards experiences either in the same way, or even as a matter with a chemical action. We are as willing to give up this kind of explanation as the corresponding explanation of physical things; but, as there, the only effectual way is to substitute a better; and that is a matter of study, and not merely of changing an opinion. The demand goes deeper when to the causes we add the functions of experience. The question of jesting Pilate is no part of psychology, but there is no more certain source of confusion than to ignore the question how a thought claims, and rightly claims, to be true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Structure Of Thinking
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Author : Laura E. Wood
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2013-06-17
The Structure Of Thinking written by Laura E. Wood and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Philosophy categories.
Analytic philosophers and cognitive scientists have long argued that the mind is a computer-like syntactical engine, and that all human mental capacities can be described as digital computational processes. This book presents an alternative, naturalistic view of human thinking, arguing that computers are merely sophisticated machines. Computers are only simulating thought when they crunch symbols, not thinking. Human cognition - semantics, de re reference, indexicals, meaning and causation - are all rooted in human experience and life. Without life and experience, these elements of discourse and knowledge refer to nothing. And without these elements of discourse and knowledge, syntax is vacant structure, not thinking.
Structure And The Metaphysics Of Mind
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Author : William Jaworski
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Structure And The Metaphysics Of Mind written by William Jaworski and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Philosophy categories.
William Jaworski provides an elegant solution to the question of how mental phenomena fit into the physical world by defending an original account of hylomorphism: the idea that structure is a basic ontological and explanatory principle. On his view, mental phenomena are structural phenomena, and are uncontroversially part of the physical world.