Making up the mind
Ian Hacking, 1 September 1988
The Computer and the Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science
by P.N. Johnson-Laird.
Harvard/Fontana, 444 pp., £23.50, May 1988,0 674 15615 3 Show More
by P.N. Johnson-Laird.
Harvard/Fontana, 444 pp., £23.50, May 1988,
“... are in fundamentally different categories. That is the beginning of a lesson well taught by Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind forty years ago. Indeed minds, unlike computers, are not things at all. We use the noun ‘mind’ often enough, but not to pick out a class of entities. It does not even work much like the matching words in the French or ... ”
