PHILOSOPHY AND MEMORY TRACES:
DESCARTES TO CONNECTIONISMJohn Sutton
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Table of Contents Extracts Reviews Citations and Discussions This page gives access to information about, extracts from, and responses to, my book Philosophy and Memory Traces.
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Below you can find draft versions of a number of chapters. Please don't quote from or cite these versions as they are not identical to the published version.
Start with the introductory chapter 'Traces, Brains, and History', which will give you a good flavour of the whole.
Please do email me if you are finding it hard to locate a copy, or (especially) if you have any responses or criticisms of the bookTable of Contents and general description of the book.
Reviews (list and selected extracts from reviews of the book - NEW with full versions of many of the reviews).
Citations
Extracts
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction - Traces, Brains, and History
Introduction to Part I: Animal Spirits and Memory Traces (html version ... or earlier draft here in rtf)
2 Wriggle-work: the quick and nimble animal spirits [New online - draft version (not identical to published chapter) in rtf]
Introduction to Part II: Inner Discipline
4 Spirit sciences, memory motions [New online - draft version (not identical to published chapter) in rtf]
8 The puzzle of survival [New online - draft version (not identical to published chapter) in rtf]
10 The puzzle of elimination [New online - draft version (not identical to published chapter) in rtf]
Introduction to Part III: 'The Phantasmal Chaos of Association'
Introduction to Part IV: Connectionism and the Philosophy of Memory
Last updated 27 March 2005.
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