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Philosophy of mind and epistemology

In the late 1970s a series of developments occurred in a variety of intellectual fields that promise to cast new light on the nature of the human mind. There have been explosive advances in neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, neurobiology, artificial intelligence, and computer studies. These have resulted in a new understanding of how seeing works, how the mind forms representations of the external world, how information is stored and retrieved, and the ways in which calculations, decision procedures, and other intellectual processes resemble and differ from the operations of sophisticated computers, especially those capable of parallel processing.

The implications for epistemology of these developments are equally exciting. They promise to give philosophers new understandings of the relationship between common sense and theorizing, that is, whether some form of materialism which eliminates reference to mental phenomena is true or whether the mental-physical dualism which common sense assumes is irreducible, and they also open new avenues for dealing with the classical problem of other minds. It is too early to make an assessment of the relevance for epistemology of what has already been achieved in these areas. There is no doubt, however, that these advances are revolutionary and that a new area of intellectual discovery has begun.

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