The Unexplained Intellect: Complexity, Time, and the Metaphysics of Embodied Thought

ISBN-13: 9780367210670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

Christopher Mole

Opis

The Unexplained Intellect: Complexity, Time, and the Metaphysics of Embodied Thought brings insights from complexity and mathematics to bear on some fundamental metaphysical questions about the mind, with fresh and original results. It will be essential reading for scholars and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, cognitive science and those interested in the application of computational and complexity theory models to understanding the mind.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Complexity of Intelligence  1. The Neglect of Noology  2. The Philosophical Relevance of Theoretical Computer Science  3. The Explanatory Consequences of Imperfection  4. Sources of Intractability  Part 2: Temporal Orientation  5. The Psychological Arrow of Time  6. Temporally Chiral Attitudes  7. Episodic and Semantic Memory  Part 3: A Point of Local Metaphysics  8. Metaphysical Questions  9. The Modal Signature of Ontological Dependence  10. Leveraging the Mind  11. An Argument for Dynamic Foundations  Part 4: The Perdurance of Intelligent Thought  12. Epistemic Conduct  13. Encountering Events  14. Action as an Epistemic Encounter  15. Inference as an Epistemic Encounter  16. Encountering Unrepresented Facts  17. Encounters First  18. The Achievement of Intelligence.  Index

O autorze

Christopher Mole is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada. In addition, he teaches in the Programme in Cognitive Systems, also at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Attention is Cognitive Unison: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology (2011).