For Wednesday 11/17, please read pgs. 143-149 and pgs. 160-172 of the following, which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website:

Devlin, Keith. 1997. Goodbye Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind, Chapter 7 (‘Machines That Think’).

(Note:  pgs. 154-160 are optional, though highly recommended.  Also, those of you with some background in formal logic and reasoning will enjoy reading the chapter in its entirety.)