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| List of figures | |
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| Preface to the first edition | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Introduction: the mechanical mind | |
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| The mechanical world picture | |
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| The mind | |
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| The puzzle of representation | |
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| The idea of representation | |
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| Pictures and resemblance | |
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| Linguistic representation | |
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| Mental representation | |
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| Thought and consciousness | |
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| Intentionality | |
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| Brentano's thesis | |
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| Conclusion: from representation to the mind | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Understanding thinkers and their thoughts | |
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| The mind-body problem | |
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| Understanding other minds | |
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| The causal picture of thoughts | |
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| Common-sense psychology | |
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| The science of thought: elimination or vindication? | |
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| Theory versus simulation | |
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| Conclusion: from representation to computation | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Computers and thought | |
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| Asking the right questions | |
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| Computation, functions and algorithms | |
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| Turing machines | |
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| Coding and symbols | |
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| Instantiating a function and computing a function | |
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| Automatic algorithms | |
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| Thinking computers? | |
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| Artificial intelligence | |
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| Can thinking be captured by rules and representations? | |
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| The Chinese room | |
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| Conclusion: can a computer think? | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The mechanisms of thought | |
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| Cognition, computation and functionalism | |
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| The language of thought | |
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| Syntax and semantics | |
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| The argument for the language of thought | |
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| The modularity of mind | |
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| Problems for the language of thought | |
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| 'Brainy' computers | |
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| Conclusion: does computation explain representation? | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Explaining mental representation | |
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| Reduction and definition | |
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| Conceptual and naturalistic definitions | |
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| Causal theories of mental representation | |
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| The problem of error | |
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| Mental representation and success in action | |
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| Mental representation and biological function | |
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| Evolution and the mind | |
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| Against reduction and definition | |
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| Conclusion: can representation be reductively explained? | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Consciousness and the mechanical mind | |
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| The story so far | |
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| Consciousness, 'what it's like' and qualia | |
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| Consciousness and physicalism | |
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| The limits of scientific knowledge | |
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| Conclusion: what do the problems of consciousness tell us about the mechanical mind? | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| The mechanical mind: a chronology | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |