TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bursen,H.A.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Dismantling the Memory Machine: A Philosophical Investigation of Machine Theories of Memory 
T2  - Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science,
SN  - 9789400998858
AV  - B67 
U1  - 501 23
PY  - 1978///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Philosophy and science
KW  - Philosophy of mind
KW  - Philosophy of Science
KW  - Philosophy of Mind
N1  - I: The Trace Theory of Memory -- One / An Introduction to Trace Theory -- Two / Trace Theory Criticized -- II: Broadening The Attack -- One / Another Problem for Trace Theory -- Two / Stimulus-Response and Information Processing Computer Theories of Memory -- III: Trace Theory as Philosophy -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
N2  - The subject of the following study is theories of memory. The first part is a study of one broad type of theory which is very widely adhered to at this time. It enjoys great popularity among neuro­ physiologists, neuropsychologists, and, more generally, among scientifically oriented people who have directed their attention to questions about memory. Further, this way of looking at the matter is not confined to scientific professionals. Indeed, we can find popularized versions of the view in magazines like Time and Reader's Digest. So in the first part of the book, I will give a presentation of the view in its general form. The theory will be presented in such a way as to reveal the features which make it tempting, which make it seem to be a very natural way to explain the phenomena of memory. (And, clearly, from the number of adherents the view has won, it is tempting, and it does seem to be to go about explaining memory. ) After setting forth a natural way this generalized version of the theory, I will next present material by various authors who hold this view. This will allow the reader to get some idea of the different forms which the theory (the 'memory trace' or 'engram' theory) takes. The last step is a critic­ ism of the theory. In the second part of the book, the attack on trace theory will be strengthened by a further criticism
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9885-8
ER  -