Computers, Brains and Minds

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Peter Slezak

   Pages 1-21

3. Why There Still Has to be a Language of Thought

   • J. A. Fodor

   Pages 23-46

4. How Much of the Mind is a Computer?

   • D. H. Mellor

   Pages 47-69

5. Computational Functional Psychology: Problems and Prospects

   • Kim Sterelny

   Pages 71-93

6. Belief and Responsibility

   • Bernard Berofsky

   Pages 95-122

7. Mental Images: Should Cognitive Science Learn from Neurophysiology?

   • Chris Mortensen

   Pages 123-136

8. How Not to Naturalize the Theory of Action

   • Peter Slezak

   Pages 137-166

9. Notes Toward a Faculty Theory of Cognitive Consciousness

   • Philip Cam

   Pages 167-191

10. Modularity, Schemas and Neurons: A Critique of Fodor

    • Michael A. Arbib

    Pages 193-219

11. Action Explanation and the Nature of Mind

    • Huw Price

    Pages 221-251

12. Back Matter

    Pages 253-255

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The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively early - though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne imme­ diately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appointments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and 1960s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand. "Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science" aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for Australian and New Zealand scholars working in the general area of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Each volume comprises a group of essays on a connected theme, edited by an Australian or a New Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. Papers address general issues, however, rather than local ones; parochial topics are avoided. Further­ more, though in each volume a majority of the contributors is from Australia or New Zealand, contributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out. Quite the reverse, in fact - they are actively encour­ aged wherever appropriate to the balance of the volume in question.

• consciousness
• philosophy
• philosophy of science
• science

• Centre for Cognitive Science, University of New South Wales, Australia

  Peter Slezak

• School of Science and Technology Studies, University of New South Wales, Australia

  W. R. Albury

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