An Introduction to Mind, Consciousness and LanguageThis textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between the mind, consciousness and language. The book examines the key concepts from both philosophy and linguistics including the mind / body problem, analyses Skinner's behaviourist position, Chomsky's transformational grammar, Fodor's representational theory of meaning, and the basics of connectionism. Difficult concepts and terms are explained succinctly, in a jargon-free manner. |
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Some modern attempts to solve Descartes problem | 13 |
A behaviourist theory of language and | 24 |
Fodor and the classical model of mind | 43 |
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A-over-A argument behaviour body brain called Cambridge causal Chapter Chomsky Chomsky's Churchland claim Cognition connectionism connectionist constituents core consciousness cortex deep structure Descartes described discussion Edelman Elman emotions English example experience explain extended consciousness fact feeling Figure Fodor & Pylyshyn folk psychology function grammar human I-language idea innate input nodes internal involved Karen kind knowledge Koch language of thought lexical item linguists Massachusetts matter means mental representations mind mind-body problem moving neural neurons notion noun phrase object output nodes Oxford particular past tense patients Patricia Churchland Paul philosophers Phineas Gage phoneme phrase structure rules physical principles propositional attitudes psychology qualia question reductionism refer represented rules Rumelhart scientific seems semantic sentences Smolensky sound syntactic syntax theory there's things transformational tree unconscious Universal Grammar University Press verb visual word