Logic of Mind

Reviews of the First Edition: 'For Nelson, it is not enough to say people are computers and that mental processes are computational processes; one must also specify the kind of machine or automaton a person is. Nelson does just this. The striking fact about Nelson's book is simply that someone has finally put forth a detailed and theoretically sophisticated version of mechanism.' Computational Linguistics 'The Logic of Mind offers novel and provation answers to a number of important problems in philosophy of mind. It deserves to be widely read.' The Philosophical Review 'Overall, The Logic of Mind is a thought-provoking argument for the thesis that humans are automata.' Contemporary Psychology ' is an excellent book written by a first-rate philosopher. It defends a version of mechanism, more specifically the thesis that humans are 'non-deterministic finite automata'. The book is worth reading: it tours widely around not only the philosophy of psychology and mind, but much contemporary epistemology, philosophy of language, mathematics and logic as well.' Australian Journal of Philosophy 'The Logic of Mind represents one of the fullest and most probing detailed available accounts of the outline of a computational theory of mind. It is no mere rhetoric on the possibility or desirability of such an enterprise.' Philosophical Psychology, 4 (1) 1991Nelson, R. J. is the author of 'Logic of Mind', published 1989 under ISBN 9789027728227 and ISBN 9027728224.