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Author: K. J. W. Craik Publisher: CUP Archive ISBN: 9780521094450 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 140
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In his only complete work of any length, Kenneth Craik considers thought as a term for the conscious working of a highly complex machine.
Author: K. J. W. Craik Publisher: CUP Archive ISBN: 9780521094450 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 140
Book Description
In his only complete work of any length, Kenneth Craik considers thought as a term for the conscious working of a highly complex machine.
Author: Kenneth James Williams Craik Publisher: ISBN: Category : Causation Languages : en Pages : 126
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In his brilliant and tragically brief career, Kenneth Craik anticipated certain ideas which since his death in 1945 have found wide acceptance. As one of the first to realise that machines share with the brain certain principles of functioning, Craik was a pioneer in the development of physiological psychology and cybernetics. Craik published only one complete work of any length, this essay on The Nature of Explanation. Here he considers thought as a term for the conscious working of a highly complex machine, viewing the brain as a calculating machine which can model or parallel external events, a process that is the basic feature of thought and explanation. He applies this view to a number of psychological and philosophical problems (such as paradox and illusion) and suggests possible experiments to test his theory. This book is of interest to those concerned with the concepts of brain and mind.
Author: Peter Achinstein Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 019503743X Category : Explanation Languages : en Pages : 398
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A new approach to the definition of scientific explanation. Unlike standard theories, it focuses initially on the explaining act itself, to which reference must be made in order to understand what an explanation is and how it can be evaluated in the sciences.
Author: Peter Achinstein Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198020767 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 402
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Offering a new approach to scientific explanation, this book focuses initially on the explaining act itself. From that act, a "product" emerges: an explanation. To understand what that product is, as well as how it can be evaluated in the sciences, reference must be made to the concept of the explaining act. Following an account of the explaining act, its product, and the evaluation of explanations, the theory is brought to bear on these issues: Why have the standard models of scientific explanation been unsuccessful, and can there be a model of the type sought? What is causal explanation, and must explanation in the sciences be causal? What is a functional explanation? The "illocutionary" theory of explanation developed at the outset is used in discussing these issues, and contrasting philosophical viewpoints are assessed.
Author: Jude P. Dougherty Publisher: CUA Press ISBN: 0813220149 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 142
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In his newest work, distinguished philosopher Jude P. Dougherty challenges contemporary empiricisms and other accounts of science that reduce it to description and prediction.
Author: Robert Cummins Publisher: Bradford Books ISBN: 9780262530651 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 219
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In exploring the nature of psychological explanation, this book looks at how psychologists theorize about the human ability to calculate, to speak a language and the like. It shows how good theorizing explains or tries to explain such abilities as perception and cognition. It recasts the familiar explanations of "intelligence" and "cognitive capacity" as put forward by philosophers such as Fodor, Dennett, and others in terms of a theory of explanation that makes established doctrine more intelligible to professionals and their students.In particular, the book shows that vestigial adherence to the positivists' D-N model has distorted the view of philosophers of science about what psychologists (and biologists) do and has masked the real nature of explanation. Major sections in the book cover Analysis and Subsumption; Functional Analysis; Understanding Cognitive Capacities; and Historical Reflections.Robert Cummins is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle. A Bradford Book.
Author: J. Faye Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137389834 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 347
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Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by which scientific thinking leads to understanding. The book explores the nature of these processes and describes how scientific thinking can only be grasped from a pragmatic perspective.
Author: Michael Giudice Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1784718815 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 265
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Understanding the Nature of Law explores methodological questions about how best to explain law. Among these questions, one is central: is there something about law which determines how it should be theorized? This novel book explains the importance of
Author: Anthony O'Hear Publisher: Clarendon Press ISBN: 0191519669 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 231
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Anthony O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behaviour in terms of evolution. He maintains, controversially, that while the theory of evolution is successful in explaining the development of the natural world in general, it is of limited value when applied to the human world. Because of our reflectiveness and our rationality we take on goals and ideals which cannot be justified in terms of survival-promotion or reproductive advantage. O'Hear examines the nature of human self-consciousness, and argues that evolutionary theory cannot give a satisfactory account of such distinctive facets of human life as the quest for knowledge, moral sense, and the appreciation of beauty; in these we transcend our biological origins. It is our rationality that allows each of us to go beyond not only our biological but also our cultural inheritance: as the author says in the Preface, 'we are prisoners neither of our genes nor of the ideas we encounter as we each make our personal and individual way through life'.
Author: S. Psillos Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230234666 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 255
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In this sequel to the highly acclaimed Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth , Psillos discusses recent developments in scientific realism and explores realist theses and commitments. He examines the structuralist turn in the philosophy of science and offers a framework within which inference to the best explanation can be defended.
Author: K. J. W. Craik
Author: K. J. W. Craik
Author: Kenneth James Williams Craik
Author: Peter Achinstein
Author: Peter Achinstein
Author: Jude P. Dougherty
Author: Robert Cummins
Author: J. Faye
Author: Michael Giudice
Author: Anthony O'Hear
Author: S. Psillos