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by Michael A. Arbib


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For twenty-five years Michael Arbib has been studying the workings of the human brain and developing new approaches to the design of intelligent machines. These concerns have often led him to ponder philosophical questions about the nature of mind and knowledge. In this book, Arbib offers a stimulating, speculative discussion of cognitive science and its relation to larger philosophical and social issues. Arbib proposes a theory of mental schemas to explain how the individual brain represents the world around it. He builds on Piaget's studies of how children learn and on his own work in brain theory and artificial intelligence to show how the concept of schemas an be used to link cognitive science to the study of persons in society. He then employs this "schema theory" as a way of looking at various constructions of reality, including those of Chomsky, Freud, Marx, and Habermas. In the final chapter, he addresses the question of human freedom and suggests a means of avoiding the apparent limitations of mechanistic explanations for human mental processes.

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  • Title In Search of the Person: Philosophical Explorations in Cognitive Science
  • Author Michael A. Arbib
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1� edicion.
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Massachusetts Press, AMHERST, MA
  • Date 1986-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780870235009 / 0870235001
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 85014152
  • Dewey Decimal Code 006.3

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Michael Arbib is a professor of computer and information science, and director of the Center for Systems Neuroscience and the Laboratory for Perpetual Robotics, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His books include Brains, Machines, and Mathematics: The Metaphorical Brain: and Computers and the Cybernetic Society.
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