# KEHOME/knowledge/ExamplesBookHierarchy/gd.html
# Apr/10/2003
# Keith Devlin
begin hierarchy gdhi;
book;
/ Goodbye, Descartes;
Goodbye, Descartes;
/ Preface;
/ 1 Patterns of Mind;
// We all do it;
// Patterns of thought;
// Logic and language;
// The language wall;
// The logic wall;
// Roger: the irrational man of logic;
// Against all odds;
// The moral of the lost car keys;
/ 2 A Passion for Order;
// The square on the hypotenuse;
// The arrow and the tortoise;
// Bricks in a building;
// The first and the second;
// The all and the some;
// The fine print;
/ 3 The Laws of Thought;
// Mathematical logic -- the very idea;
// Dialectica, dialectica;
// The logic of William Ockham and Pseudo-Scot;
// Adolescence, English puns, and a loss of favor;
// The logic of Leibniz;
// The calm before the storm;
// Euclid falters and axiomatic logic comes back into favor;
// Algebra spreads its wings;
/ 4 From Symbols to Silicon;
// Symbols of the mind;
// The Boolean bandwagon;
// Splitting the logical atom;
// The golden age;
// Language stripped to the bone;
// Searching for meaning;
// The computational mind of A. M. Turing;
// Logic in silicon;
// Shadows of a wheel;
/ 5 The Science of Language;
// A way with words;
// What is linguistics?;
// A new science is born;
// The American way;
// Myths of Hopi time and Eskimo snow;
// Too many sentences;
/ 6 Language in the Mind;
// The revolution by the Charles River;
// The linguistic patterns Chomsky wove;
// How can children learn language so easily?;
// The language instinct;
// Things your teacher got wrong;
// The linguistic patterns shared by all mankind;
/ 7 Machines That Think;
// Smart machines?;
// Alan Turing's IQ test for computers;
// The computer that proved theorems;
// How to get a computer to act smart;
// Machines that answer back;
// Bursting bubbles;
// Silicon experts;
// Reasons of the heart;
/ 8 Communication Is the Key;
// Beyond Chomsky;
// Photocopy machines and air-traffic control;
// The meaning of it all;
// How big is big?;
// A failure to communicate;
// Coming to terms with the situation;
/ 9 Verbal Tangos;
// Er, umm, maybe, all right then;
// The fine power of a culture;
// But you know what I mean?;
// The elephant's trunk;
// Conversation -- from lost art to new science;
// The logic of conversation;
// The hidden meanings in what we say;
// Building on common ground;
// Steps in the verbal tango;
// Can there be an algebra of conversation?;
/ 10 The Cheshire Cat's Grin;
// The informational stance;
// The Cheshire Cat's grin;
// Acting according to type;
// It's common knowledge;
// The Liar Paradox;
/ 11 Goodbye, Descartes;
// Leaving the omega;
// Beyond logic;
// The puzzle of rationality;
// Understanding language;
// Goodbye, Descartes;
// Plato's cave;
// Soft mathematics;
// What is understanding?;
// The soft mathematician's toolbox;
/ Selected Further Reading;
/ Index;
end hierarchy gdhi;