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Biographical note
Kim Sterelny is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is co-author with Michael Devitt of Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language.Kim Sterelny aims to introduce people to this area of philosophy be exemplifying it, to show that philosophical and empirical investigations can be synthesized to the benefit of both. It is both introduction and argument, explanation and manifesto and succeeds in bridging the widening gap between student primer and contemporary research. Technical vocabulary is explained (and defined in a glossary) while the leading edge of current debates is confronted and assessed. This book has been written for people working in philosophy, psychology and the cognitive sciences.
Representation and computation
Representation, computation, and implementation
Marr on vision; Fodor on the mind's organization: the theory in action
Individualism
Explaining content
Eliminativism
Connectionism
Reduction and autonomy
Explaining intelligence
Kim Sterelny aims to introduce people to this area of philosophy be exemplifying it, to show that philosophical and empirical investigations can be synthesized to the benefit of both. It is both introduction and argument, explanation and manifesto and succeeds in bridging the widening gap between student primer and contemporary research. Technical vocabulary is explained (and defined in a glossary) while the leading edge of current debates is confronted and assessed. This book has been written for people working in philosophy, psychology and the cognitive sciences.