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  3. Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      March 1996
      ISBN:
      9781139172714
      9780521451666
      9780521646246
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139172714
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.648kg, 328 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.503kg, 328 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, Neurosciences
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
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    Subjects:
    Life Sciences, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, Neurosciences
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
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    This book explains the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity, and in so doing links philosophy of mind to more general issues about the relations between organisms and environments, and to the general pattern of 'externalist' explanations. The author provides a biological approach to the investigation of mind and cognition in nature. In particular he explores the idea that the function of cognition is to enable agents to deal with environmental complexity. The history of the idea in the work of Dewey and Spencer is considered, as is the impact of recent evolutionary theory on our understanding of the place of mind in nature.

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