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A topic which is at the very center of philosophy is epistemology — the nature of knowledge. Systematic inquiry began with Plato, who was deeply puzzled about how humans learned and remembered anything, including, for example, facts, faces, theories, and mathematical proofs, as well as skills such as carpentry or statecraft. In focusing on mathematics, Plato found the problem of learning so intractable that he concluded that mathematical knowledge was actually not learned at all.
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Churchland PS, Sejnowksi TJ (1991) The net effect: models, methods, and mysteries in computational neuroscience. Cambridge, MIT Press, in press
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Churchland, P.S. (1992). Introduction: Neurophilosophy and Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Christen, Y., Churchland, P.S. (eds) Neurophilosophy and Alzheimer’s Disease. Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer’s Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46759-2_1
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