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9780521039376

Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to Connectionism

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    9780521039376

  • ISBN10:

    0521039371

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-08-20
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Philosophy and Memory Traces defends two theories of autobiographical memory. One is a bewildering historical view of memories as dynamic patterns in fleeting animal spirits, nervous fluids which rummaged through the pores of brain and body. The other is new connectionism, in which memories are 'stored' only superpositionally, and reconstructed rather than reproduced. Both models, argues John Sutton, depart from static archival metaphors by employing distributed representation, which brings interference and confusion between memory traces. Both raise urgent issues about control of the personal past, and about relations between self and body. Sutton demonstrates the role of bizarre body fluids in moral physiology, as philosophers from Descartes and Locke to Coleridge struggled to control their own innards and impose cognitive discipline on 'the phantasmal chaos of association'. Going on to defend connectionism against Fodor and critics of passive mental representations, he shows how problems of the self are implicated in cognitive science.

Table of Contents

List of figures
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction: traces, brains and history
Animal Spirits and Memory Traces: Introduction
Wriggle-work: the quick and nimble animal spirits
Memory and 'the Cartesian philosophy of the brain'
Inner Discipline: Introduction
Spirit sciences, memory motions
Cognition, chaos and control in English responses to Descartes' theory of memory
Local and distributed representations
John Locke and the neurophilosophy of self
The puzzle of survival
Spirits, body and self
The puzzle of elimination
'The Phantasmal Chaos of Association': Introduction
Fodor, connectionism and cognitive discipline
Associationism and neo-associationism
Hartley's distributed model of memory
Attacks on neurophilosophy: Reid and Coleridge
Connectionism and the Philosophy of Memory: Introduction
Representations, realism and history
Attacks on traces
Order, confusion, remembering
References
Index
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