Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature

by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Book Overview

This book is a further contribution to the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. It is an ambitious attempt to explain the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity, and in so doing to link philosophy of mind to more general issues about the relations between organisms and environments, and to the general pattern of externalist explanations. This is a highly original philosophical project that will appeal to a broad...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521646243
• ISBN13: 9780521646246
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"