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Reviews of the First Edition For Nelson it is not enough to say people arecomputers and that mental processes are computational processes one must alsospecify the kind of machine or automaton a person is. Nelson does just this.... The striking fact about Nelsons book is simply that someone has finallyput forth a detailed and theoretically sophisticated version of mechanism.Computational Linguistics The Logic of Mind offers novel and provation answersto a number of important problems in philosophy of mind. It deserves to bewidely read. The Philosophical Review Overall The Logic of Mind is a thoughtprovoking argument for the thesis that humans are automata. ContemporaryPsychology ... is an excellent book written by a firstrate philosopher. Itdefends a version of mechanism more specifically the thesis that humans arenondeterministic finite automata. ... The book is worth reading it tourswidely around not only the philosophy of psychology and mind but muchcontemporary epistemology philosophy of language mathematics and logic aswell. Australian Journal of Philosophy The Logic of Mind represents one of thefullest and most probing detailed available accounts of the outline of acomputational theory of mind. It is no mere rhetoric on the possibility ordesirability of such an enterprise. Philosophical Psychology 4 1 1991 «
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