This volume introduces central issues in cognitive science by means of debates on key questions. The debates are written by renowned experts in the field. The debates cover the middle ground as well as the extremes. This title addresses topics such as the amount of innate knowledge, bounded rationality and the role of perception in action. It ...
This is a timely book that uses science fiction to provoke reflection and discussion on philosophical issues. From the nature of mind to the ethics of AI and neural enhancement, science fiction thought experiments fire the philosophical imagination, encouraging us to think outside of the box about classic philosophical problems and even to ...
This is the first volume of a projected three-volume set on the subject of innateness. The extent to which the mind is innate is one of the central questions in the human sciences, with important implications for many surrounding debates. By bringing together the top nativist scholars in philosophy, psychology, and allied disciplines these volumes ...
The General Editors are: Martin Davies, Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK; James Higginbotham, Professor of General Linguistics, University of Oxford, UK; John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London, UK; Christopher Peacocke, Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, University of ...
This work presents a groundbreaking argument challenging the traditional linguistic representational model of cognition proposes that representational states should be conceptualized as the cognitive equivalent of scale models. In this groundbreaking book, Jonathan Waskan challenges cognitive science's dominant model of mental representation and ...
SEE AUTHOR'S BLURB FOR LEAFLETS This collection of papers by distinguished philosophers, psychologists, and physiologists reflects an interdisciplinary approach to the central question of cognitive science: how do we model the mind? Among the questions explored are the relationships (theoretical, reductive, and explanatory) between philosophy, ...
This is the second of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing; it celebrates his intellectual legacy within the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. A distinguished international cast of contributors focus on the relationship between a scientific, computational image of the mind and a common-sense picture of the mind as an inner ...
"The Systematicity Arguments" is the only book-length treatment of the systematicity and productivity arguments. It explores each of the arguments in detail addressing the explanatory standard that is involved in the arguments, what is to be explained in the arguments, how diverse theories have attempted to meet the explanatory challenges of ...
Are humans unique? Can animals think as we do? Will machines ever be conscious? What is free will? For centuries, attempts to answer these questions have been the stuff of theological and philosophical dispute, as well as bar-room debate. Now scientists claim they can solve these riddles of human existence, once and for all. Man, Beast and Zombie ...
The papers in this volume represent leading-edge work by well-known scholars on the topics mentioned in the title: discourse, interaction, and communication. They report work done from widely divergent points on the theoretical spectrum of cognitive science, and from different disciplinary starting points (philosophy, logic, linguistics, ...
Human knowing is examined as it emerges from classical empirical psychology, with its ramifications into language, computing, science, and scholarship. While the discussion takes empirical support from a wide range, claims for the significance of logic and rules are challenged throughout.Highlights of the discussion include: knowing is a matter of ...
Evolutionary thinking has expanded in the last decades, spreading from its traditional stronghold - the explanation of speciation and adaptation in biology - to new domains. Fascinating pieces of work, the essays in this collection attest to the illuminating power of evolutionary thinking when applied to the understanding of the human mind. The ...
Proposing an integrated approach to the science of mind, this work incorporates ideas from across the board into a new theory of consciousness, selfhood and cognitive development. It focuses on the nature of symbol systems, detailing theories of consciousness and selfhood.
This book engages a range of currently debated issues in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, challenging certain cognitivist positions in contemporary neuroscience. In addressing each topic, an effort is made to illuminate the historical-philosophical origins of the problems confronted, exposing a central the way in which various forms ...
Los estudios sobre la mente estan actualmente condicionados por los siguientes acontecimientos: primero, el abandono del conductismo como paradigma explicativo; segundo, la vuelta a los conceptos mentales, como puede apreciarse en la Ciencia cognitiva, de considerable desarrollo en los ultimos decenios; tercero, el perfeccionamiento de la ...
The computational theory of mind has been influential in philosophical studies of cognition. However, this book pronounces the theory deficient, refuting its claims and assumptions, particularly the assertion that symbolic representations need not have conventional meaning. The book goes on to sketch a new methodology for looking at the philosophy ...
Recent rapid advances in high-speed computer technology have provided a new reality, an perhaps urgency, to the arguments concerning some of the most basic and long-standing of philosophical issues. If computers can, before too long, achieve a genuine artificial intelligence, then may they not also have artificial minds? In this series of lectures ...
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