{"product_id":"philosophy-and-memory-traces-descartes-to-connectionism-hardback-9780521591942","title":"Philosophy and Memory Traces; Descartes to Connectionism (Hardback) 9780521591942","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePhilosophy and Memory Traces\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDescartes to Connectionism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis study offers interpretations of theories of memory and the body from Descartes to Coleridge.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Sutton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521591942, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 March 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e392 pages, 5 b\/w illus.  2 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.74 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This is a remarkable book: elegantly written, impressive with regards to its scholarship and its attention to a wealth of relevant material (historical and contemporary), and exciting innovative in the ideas about memory, as the creative link between self and world.' Australian Journal of Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePhilosophy 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: traces, brains and history\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Animal Spirits and Memory Traces: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Wriggle-work: the quick and nimble animal spirits\u003cbr\u003e 3. Memory and 'the Cartesian philosophy of the brain'\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Inner Discipline: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 4. Spirit sciences, memory motions\u003cbr\u003e 5. Cognition, chaos and control in English responses to Descartes' theory of memory\u003cbr\u003e 6. Local and distributed representations\u003cbr\u003e 7. John Locke and the neurophilosophy of self\u003cbr\u003e 8. The puzzle of survival\u003cbr\u003e 9. Spirits, body and self\u003cbr\u003e 10. The puzzle of elimination\u003cbr\u003e Part III. 'The Phantasmal Chaos of Association': Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 11. Fodor, connectionism and cognitive discipline\u003cbr\u003e 12. Associationism and neo-associationism\u003cbr\u003e 13. Hartley's distributed model of memory\u003cbr\u003e 14. Attacks on neurophilosophy: Reid and Coleridge\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Connectionism and the Philosophy of Memory: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 15. Representations, realism and history\u003cbr\u003e 16. Attacks on traces\u003cbr\u003e 17. Order, confusion, remembering\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy of mind [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy of mind\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20of%20mind%20%5BHPM%5D%22\"\u003eHPM\u003c\/a\u003e], History of Western philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of Western philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20Western%20philosophy%20%5BHPC%5D%22\"\u003eHPC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46129184440600,"sku":"9780521591942","price":90.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521591942i.jpg?v=1691666289","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/philosophy-and-memory-traces-descartes-to-connectionism-hardback-9780521591942","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}