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  1. Intentionality and information processing: An alternative model for cognitive science.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1986 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (1):121-38.
    This article responds to two unresolved and crucial problems of cognitive science: (1) What is actually accomplished by functions of the nervous system that we ordinarily describe in the intentional idiom? and (2) What makes the information processing involved in these functions semantic? It is argued that, contrary to the assumptions of many cognitive theorists, the computational approach does not provide coherent answers to these problems, and that a more promising start would be to fall back on mathematical communication theory (...)
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    Consciousness: A Philosophic Study of Minds and Machines.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1969 - Random House.
  3. (3 other versions)Recognition, a study in the philosophy of artificial intelligence.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1965 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 22 (4):497-497.
     
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    Consciousness: A Philosophic Study of Minds and Machines.J. R. Lucas & Kenneth M. Sayre - 1972 - Philosophical Review 81 (2):241.
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    Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman.Kenneth M. Sayre - 2006 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    At the beginning of his Metaphysics, Aristotle attributed several strange-sounding theses to Plato. Generations of Plato scholars have assumed that these could not be found in the dialogues. In heated arguments, they have debated the significance of these claims, some arguing that they constituted an 'unwritten teaching' and others maintaining that Aristotle was mistaken in attributing them to Plato. In a prior book-length study on Plato's late ontology, Kenneth M. Sayre demonstrated that, despite differences in terminology, these claims correspond to (...)
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    Some untoward consequences of Dretske's “causal theory” of information.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1983 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (1):78-79.
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    Plato's Late Ontology: A Riddle Resolved: With a New Introduction and the Essay, "Excess and Deficiency at Statesman 283c-285c".Kenneth M. Sayre - 1983 - [Las Vegas]: Parmenides.
    A new edition of a classic work compares Plato's dialogues to Aristotle's depiction of them. Reprint.
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    Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1976 - London: Routledge.
    This book, published in 1976, presents an entirely original approach to the subject of the mind-body problem, examining it in terms of the conceptual links between the physical sciences and the sciences of human behaviour. It is based on the cybernetic concepts of information and feedback and on the related concepts of thermodynamic and communication-theoretic entropy. The foundation of the approach is the theme of continuity between evolution, learning and human consciousness. The author defines life as a process of energy (...)
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    Plato's Analytic Method.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1969 - Chicago,: University of Chicago Press.
    Applying the analytical methods of modern logic to problems of interpretation in Plato, the author traces the development of Plato's analytic method from the crude form expressed in the Phaedo to the considerably more sophisticated and powerful techniques practiced in the later methodological dialogues.
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    Parmenides' Lesson: Translation and Explication of Plato's Parmenides.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1996 - Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
    Parmenides is generally recognized as Plato's most difficult dialogue. This work argues that the key to unlocking the puzzles of Parmenides II lies in the proper interpretive pairing of the eight hypotheses under which its arguments are grouped.
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    Plato's Literary Garden: How to Read a Platonic Dialogue.Kenneth M. Sayre - 2003 - Philosophical Quarterly 53 (212):446-448.
  12. Statistical models of causal relations.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1977 - Philosophy of Science 44 (2):203-214.
    A model of causation is presented which shares the advantages of Reichenbach's definition in terms of the screening-off relation, but which has the added advantage of distinguishing cause and effect without reference to temporal directionality. This model is defined in terms of the masking relation, which in turn is defined in terms of the equivocation relation of communication theory.
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  13. Cognitive science and the problem of semantic content.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1987 - Synthese 70 (February):247-69.
    The problem of semantic content is the problem of explicating those features of brain processes by virtue of which they may properly be thought to possess meaning or reference. This paper criticizes the account of semantic content associated with fodor's version of cognitive science, And offers an alternative account based on mathematical communication theory. Its key concept is that of a neuronal representation maintaining a high-Level of mutual information with a designated external state of affairs under changing conditions of perceptual (...)
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    Teaching Collection (Economics: The environment, rights, and future generations.Kenneth E. Goodpaster & Kenneth M. Sayre - 1979
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    Belief and Knowledge: Mapping the Cognitive Landscape.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1997 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Contesting much contemporary epistemology and cognitive science, noted philosopher Kenneth M. Sayre argues that, while some cognitive attitudes such as believing take propositions as objects, there are many others whose objects are instead states of affairs.
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    Plato's Parmenides: Why the Eight Hypotheses are not Contradictory.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1978 - Phronesis 23 (2):133-150.
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    The Modeling of Mind: Computers and Intelligence.Kenneth M. Sayre & Frederick James Crosson (eds.) - 1963 - Notre Dame, IN, USA: University of Notre Dame Press.
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    The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science and Models of Mind.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1979 - Philosophy of Science 46 (4):651-652.
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    Propositional logic in Plato's Protagoras.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1963 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 4 (4):306-312.
  20. Plato's Dialogues in Light of the Seventh Letter.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1988 - In Charles L. Griswold (ed.), Platonic Writings/Platonic Readings. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 93--109.
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    Sophist 263b revisited.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1976 - Mind 85 (340):581-586.
  22. Philosophy and Cybernetics.Frederick J. Crosson, Kenneth M. Sayre, Simon & Schuster - 1973 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 29 (2):227-227.
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    Of dialogues and seeds.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1997 - Philosophy and Literature 21 (1):167-178.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Of Dialogues and SeedsKenneth SeeskinPlato’s Literary Garden: How to Read a Platonic Dialogue, by Kenneth M. Sayre; xxiii & 292 pp. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995, $34.95.One of the best known paradoxes in the Platonic corpus occurs in the Seventh Letter (341), when Plato says that he has never written about the problems which concern him and never will. His reason: “This knowledge can never be (...)
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    Syllogistic inference within the propositional calculus.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1964 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 5 (3):238-240.
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    Action, Emotion and Will.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1964 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 13:215-217.
    This book will please different people for different reasons. Those who have felt the lack of an adequate analysis of the emotions will be gratified by the author’s clarity and comprehension of view in distinguishing among feelings, desires, and pleasures. Ethical theorists may benefit from his analysis of the difference between motives and intentions. Philosophers who have been puzzled by Wittgenstein’s remarks on sensation in Parts I and II of Philosophical Investigations may expect to find some relief in the author’s (...)
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    Adventures in philosophy at Notre Dame.Kenneth M. Sayre - 2014 - Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
    A narrative history of Notre Dame's world renowned philosophy department, which divides the nearly 80 decades into three distinct periods: textbook Thomism, pluralism, and professionalism.
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    Current questions for the science of behavior.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1984 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7 (4):535-535.
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    Gasking on arithmetical incorrigibility.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1962 - Mind 71 (283):372-376.
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    Intelligence, Bodies, and Digital Computers.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1968 - Review of Metaphysics 21 (4):714 - 723.
    I do not wish at this time to dispute either or. I do not believe, however, that the intermediate step can be adequately justified, and hence remain unconvinced by the purported conclusion. The most recent presentation of this argument is in Professor Dreyfus' article "Why Computers must have Bodies in order to be Intelligent," a discussion of which will serve to explain my lack of confidence in any argument of this general form.
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    Information-flow diagrams as scientific models.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1984 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7 (1):79-80.
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    Moonflight: a conversation on determinism.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1977 - Ann Arbor, Mich.: produced and distributed on demand by University Microfilms International.
  32. Minds, Machines and Gödel.Kenneth M. Sayre & Frederick J. Crosson - unknown
    Gödel's theorem seems to me to prove that Mechanism is false, that is, that minds cannot be explained as machines. So also has it seemed to many other people: almost every mathematical logician I have put the matter to has confessed to similar thoughts, but has felt reluctant to commit himself definitely until he could see the whole argument set out, with all objections fully stated and properly met.1 This I attempt to do.
     
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    On disagreement about perception.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1964 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 7 (1-4):143 – 162.
    We attempt to clarify the nature of philosophic assertions about perception by considering how one can argue effectively against such assertions. Reasons are given, with illustrative assertions from Aristotle and Berkeley, why one cannot argue effectively against such either (1) by arguing for contrary assertions in competing theories or (2) by appealing to scientific observation. Effective arguments against such accounts include (1) those which demonstrate inconsistency within the account, (2) those which disclose an unintelligibility within the account, and (3) those (...)
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    Starburst: a conversation on man and nature.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1977 - Ann Arbor, Mich.: produced and distributed on demand by University Microfilms International.
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    Truth, faith, and reason: scripture, tradition, and John Paul II.Kenneth M. Sayre - 2022 - Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications.
    John Paul II’s Faith and Reason was written against a background of Catholic scholarship focusing notably on the New Testament, St. Augustine’s Confessions, St. Thomas’s De Veritate, and the encyclicals of various pre-Vatican II popes. A detailed, textually based critique of these early sources reveals inconsistencies and conceptual errors that are shown to carry over into Faith and Reason. John Paul II’s treatment of reason, in particular, turns out to be aberrant to the point of incoherence. It is inconceivable how (...)
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    Teaching ourselves by learning machines.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1970 - Journal of Philosophy 67 (21):908-918.
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    The Problems of Perception.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1960 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 10 (10):239-242.
    Psychologists, physiologists, and philosophers find different problems in perception, and the interested layman is often puzzled when he comes to realize how little scientific and philosophic theories of perception have in common. The approach of this book is synoptic, in that the author believes that evidence from scientific theories of perception can be brought to bear upon the solution of problems traditionally left to the philosopher. Among problems which Hirst attempts to unravel with the help of physiology and psychology are (...)
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    Unearthed: The Economic Roots of Our Environmental Crisis.Kenneth M. Sayre - 2010 - University of Notre Dame Press.
    In __Unearthed: The Economic Roots of Our Environmental Crisis_, _Kenneth M. Sayre argues that the only way to resolve our current environmental crisis is to reduce our energy consumption to a level where the entropy produced by that consumption no longer exceeds the biosphere’s ability to dispose of it. Tangible illustrations of this entropy buildup include global warming, ozone depletion, loss of species diversity, and unmanageable amounts of nonbiodegradable waste._ Degradation of the biosphere is tied directly to human energy use, (...)
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    Various senses of “intentional system”.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (4):760.
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    Book Review:The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science and Models of Mind Aaron Sloman. [REVIEW]Kenneth M. Sayre - 1979 - Philosophy of Science 46 (4):651-.
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    Plato's Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides. [REVIEW]Kenneth M. Sayre - 2008 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (1):169-170.
    Kenneth M. Sayre - Plato's Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides - Journal of the History of Philosophy 46:1 Journal of the History of Philosophy 46.1 169-170 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Kenneth M. Sayre University of Notre Dame Samuel C. Rickless. Plato's Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. v + 272. Cloth, $90.00. Rickless construes Plato's middle-period account of the Forms as a theory comprising axioms, auxiliary principles, (...)
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    Sensationalism and Scientific Explanation. [REVIEW]Kenneth M. Sayre - 1964 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 13:240-243.
    There are several things about this little book which make it worth reading. One is its lucid summary of Mach’s views on the constitution of physical objects out of sensations, and on the nature of scientific explanation, which the author labels ‘Sensationalism’. Another is his analysis of descriptions, in particular his discussion of the characteristics with reference to which we judge a description satisfactory or otherwise. Of less direct relevance to the main theme of the book, but suggestive nonetheless, is (...)
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    The Development of Plato's Metaphysics (review). [REVIEW]Kenneth M. Sayre - 1983 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (3):391-393.