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Mental Symbols

A Defence of the Classical Theory of Mind

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Peter Novak
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Part of the book series: Studies in Cognitive Systems (COGS, volume 19)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N3-xxii
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  2. Conservative Rationalism I

    • Peter Novak
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Idea as World and Will

    • Peter Novak
    Pages 25-38

  4. Sentence-based Semantics

    • Peter Novak
    Pages 39-57

  5. Radical Empiricism I

    • Peter Novak
    Pages 59-75

  6. Radical Empiricism II

    • Peter Novak
    Pages 77-106

  7. Conservative Rationalism II

    • Peter Novak
    Pages 107-123

  8. The Classical Theory of Mind I

    • Peter Novak
    Pages 125-165

  9. The Classical Theory of Mind II

    • Peter Novak
    Pages 167-193

  10. The Classical Theory of Mind III

    • Peter Novak
    Pages 195-223

  11. The Tale of Russell’s Paradox

    • Peter Novak
    Pages 225-242

  12. Epilogue

    • Peter Novak
    Pages 243-246

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 247-267
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About this book

Mental Symbols is an essay on mind and meaning, on the biological implementation of mental symbols, on the architecture of mind, and on the correct construal of logical properties and relations of symbols, including implication and inference. The book argues against the main contemporary trends in the cognitive sciences, preferring rather the classical early-modern tradition. The author looks at some logical paradoxes in the light of that tradition, and offers a novel answer to the problem of the biological implementation of the mind in the brain.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mental Symbols

  • Book Subtitle: A Defence of the Classical Theory of Mind

  • Authors: Peter Novak

  • Series Title: Studies in Cognitive Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5632-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4370-7Published: 31 December 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6374-6Published: 11 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5632-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-0780

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 267

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Psycholinguistics

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