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The three great traditions in the philosophy of mind are: Cartesian, LaMettriean, Kantian. These three traditions have been continued in the twentieth century in a variety of forms, and often under a range of disguises.
By “epistemology” we shall understand the theory of scientific knowledge, particularly as related to the growth of this knowledge. By the “mind” we shall understand the cognitive organ which participates in the growth of this knowledge. No definition of the “computer” is offered here in order to avoid such inadequate definitions as: “The computer is a high speed moron.”
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N. Chomsky, Cartesian Linguistics ( New York: Harper and Row, 1966 ), p. 60.
D. O. Hebb, “Intelligence, Brain Function, and the Theory of Mind,” Brain, Vol. 82, Part II (1959), p. 265.
See in this respect Raziel Abelson’s “A Spade Is a Spade, So Mind Your Language,” in Dimensions of Mind, Sidney Hook, ed. (New York, 1966).
F. T. Crosson and K. M. Sayre (eds.), Philosophy and Cybernetics (Notre Dame, 1967 ), p. 61.
See John Lucas, “Minds, Machine and Gödel,” in Minds and Machines ( Englewood Cliffs, New York: A. Anderson, 1964 ).
Hubert Dreyfus, “Cybernetics as the Last Stage of Metaphysics,” Proceedings of the XlVth International Congress of Philosophy, Vol. II, pp. 497 and 498 (Vienna, 1968 ).
Oliver G. Selfridge and Ulric Neisser, “Pattern Recognition by Machine,” in Computer and Thoughts, ed. E. A. Feigenbaum and J. Feldman ( New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963 ).
N. S. Sutherland, “Machines Like Men,” Science Journal, Vol. 4, No. 10 (October, 1968 ), p. 47.
L. S. Vygotsky, Thought and Language ( Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1962 ), p. 51.
J. Bronowski, “Human and Animal Languages,” in To Honor Roman Jacobson: Essays on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday ( The Hague: Mouton, 1967 ), p. 387.
Noam Chomsky, “Recent Contributions to the Theory of Innate Ideas,” Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. III (1968), p. 81.
Noam Chomsky, “Knowledge of Language,” Times Literary Supplement (May 5, 1969), p. 523.
Noam Chomsky, Language and Mind (1968), p. 81.
See, for instance, The Concept of Matter in Greek and Medieval Philosophy, ed. Ernan McMullin (1965).
See Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Foundations of the Unity of Science, Vol. II, No. 2 (1962).
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Skolimowski, H. (1972). Epistemology, the Mind and the Computer. In: Breck, A.D., Yourgrau, W. (eds) Biology, History, and Natural Philosophy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1695-4_21
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