Mechanism, Mentalism and Metamathematics

This book grew out of a graduate student paper [261] in which I set down some criticisms of J. R. Lucas'' attempt to refute mechanism by means of G6del''s theorem. I had made several such abortive attempts myself and had become familiar with their pitfalls, and especially with the double­ edged nature of incompleteness arguments. My original idea was to model the refutation of mechanism on the alm...