| Description |
xvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: traces, brains, and history -- App. memory and connectionism -- I. Animal spirits and memory traces. 2. Wriggle-work: the quick and nimble animal spirits. 3. Memory and 'the Cartesian philosophy of the brain' -- App. 1. nerves, spirits, and traces in Descartes -- App. 2. Malebranche on memory -- II. Inner discipline. 4. Spirit sciences, memory motions. 5. Cognition, chaos, and control in English responses to Descartes' theory of memory. 6. Local and distributed representations. 7. John Locke and the neurophilosophy of self -- App. memory and self in Essay II.27. 8. The puzzle of survival. 9. Spirits, body, and self. 10. The puzzle of elimination -- III. 'The phantasmal chaos of association'. 11. Fodor, connectionism, and cognitive discipline. 12. Associationism and neo-associationism. 13. Hartley's distributed model of memory. 14. Attacks on neurophilosophy: Reid and Coleridge -- IV. Connectionism and the philosophy or memory |
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15. Representations, realism, and history. 16. Attacks on traces. 17. Order, confusion, remembering |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-366) and index |
| Subject |
Memory (Philosophy) -- History.
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Autobiographical memory.
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Connectionism.
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| LC no. |
97008909 //r98 |
| ISBN |
0521591945 hb |
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