9789401076173

Acting and Reflecting

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ISBN13: 9789401076173

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Overview

In the fall of 1985 Carnegie Mellon University established a Department of Philosophy. The focus of the department is logic broadly conceived, philos­ ophy of science, in particular of the social sciences, and linguistics. To mark the inauguration of the department, a daylong celebration was held on April 5, 1986. This celebration consisted of two keynote addresses by Patrick Sup­ pes and Thomas Schwartz, seminars directed by members of the department, and a panel discussion on the computational model of mind moderated by Dana S. Scott. The various contributions, in modified and expanded form, are the core of this collection of essays, and they are, I believe, of more than parochial interest: they turn attention to substantive and reflective interdis­ ciplinary work. The collection is divided into three parts. The first part gives perspec­ tives (i) on general features of the interdisciplinary enterprise in philosophy (by Patrick Suppes, Thomas Schwartz, Herbert A. Simon, and Clark Gly­ mour) , and (ii) on a particular topic that invites such interaction, namely computational models of the mind (with contributions by Gilbert Harman, John Haugeland, Jay McClelland, and Allen Newell). The second part con­ tains (mostly informal) reports on concrete research done within that enter­ prise; the research topics range from decision theory and the philosophy of economics through foundational problems in mathematics to issues in aes­ thetics and computational linguistics. The third part is a postscriptum by Isaac Levi, analyzing directions of (computational) work from his perspective.

ISBN-13

9789401076173

ISBN-10

9401076170

Weight

0.74 Pounds

Dimensions

6.10 x 0.54 x 9.25 In

List Price

$109.99

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

xii, 222 pages

Publisher

Springer

Published On

2011-10-05



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