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Minds, brains, and science
Author
Title
Minds, brains, and science / John Searle.
ISBN
0674576314
9780674576315
0674576330
9780674576339
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984.
Physical Description
107 pages ; 22 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 4537: Number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" on title page verso indicates 1st printing. Dust jacket. Autograph: Samuel R. Delany, April 4, 1985. Manuscript notes of Samuel R. Delany. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Summary
Six lectures discuss the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, the workings of the brain, the mental aspect of human action, prediction of human behavior, and free will.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
The 1984 Reith lectures
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-102) and index.
Contents
The mind-body problem
Can computers think?
Cognitive science
The structure of action
Prospects for the social sciences
The freedom of the will.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations (Provenance) - 20th century.
Also listed under
Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Working Library.
United States Massachusetts Cambridge.
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