The Mechanical Mind : A philosophical introduction to minds, machines and mental representation (Second edition)

Abstract

An introduction to some of the main preoccupations of contemporary philosophy of mind: introduces the puzzle of representation and discusses pictorial, linguistic and mental representation, the nature of common-sense (so-called ‘folk’) psychology and the causal nature of thoughts, addresses the question of whether computers can think, asks whether our minds are computers in any sense, discusses theories of mental representation and the brief epilogue raises some sceptical doubts about the limitations of the mechanical view of the mind.