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1	Words, Thoughts, and Theories more books like this by Alison M Gopnik, Ph.D., Andrew N Meltzoff add to wishlist "Words, Thoughts and Theories" articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development, the idea that infants and young children, like scientists, learn about the world by forming and revising theories, a view of the origins of knowledge and meaning that has broad implications for cognitive science. Alison Gopnik and ... see all copies from $16.81! new only from $23.94! \| first editions \| SVS
2	From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Language more books like this by Jerome A Feldman add to wishlist This is a theory that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a function of our brains and experience, integrating recent findings from biology, computer science, linguistics, and psychology, and demonstrated with computational models. In "From Molecule to Metaphor", Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that ... see all copies from $14.10! new only from $14.10! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The future of the cognitive revolution more books like this by David Johnson (Editor), Christina Erneling (Editor) add to wishlist The model of the mind developed during the 20th-century's so-called "cognitive revolution" - that the mind is analogous to computer software - has recently lost its once virtually unquestioned pre-eminence. Thus we are now faced with the question of whether it it possible to repair this model, or whether we need to reconceive it in fundamental ... see all copies from $13.80! new only from $26.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Oxford Cognitive Science Series more books like this by Jerry A Fodor add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $16.77! new only from $24.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology more books like this by Peter Carruthers add to wishlist Do we think in natural language? Or is language only for communication? Much recent work in philosophy and cognitive science assumes the latter. In contrast, Peter Carruthers argues that much of human conscious thinking is conducted in the medium of natural language sentences. However, this does not commit him to any sort of Whorfian linguistic ... see all copies from $35.00! new only from $48.82! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Unified Theories of Cognition more books like this by Allen Newell add to wishlist Allen Newell, a leading researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology, makes the case for unified theories of cognition by setting forth a candidate: Soar, an architecture for general cognition. A pioneer system in artificial intelligence, Soar is the first problem solver to create its own subgoals and learn continuously from its own ... see all copies from $9.31! new only from $56.50! \| first editions
7	Without Good Reason: The Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science more books like this by Edward Stein add to wishlist Are humans rational? Various experiments performed over the last several decades have been interpreted as showing that humans are irrational we make significant and consistent errors in logical reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, similarity judgements, and risk-assessment, to name a few areas. But can these experiments establish human ... see all copies from $41.42! new only from $94.91! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science more books like this by Alvin I Goldman (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of readings shows how cognitive science can influence most of the primary branches of philosophy, as well as how philosophy critically examines the foundations of cognitive science. Its broad coverage extends beyond current texts that focus mainly on the impact of cognitive science on philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $40.00! \| first editions
9	Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists more books like this by Patrick Colm Hogan add to wishlist Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts is the first student-friendly introduction to the uses of cognitive science in the study of literature, written specifically for the non-scientist. Patrick Colm Hogan guides the reader through all of the major theories of cognitive science, focusing on those areas that are most important to fostering a ... see all copies from $18.63! new only from $28.15! \| SVS
10	The Cognitive Paradigm more books like this by Marc De Mey, Marc De Mey add to wishlist see all copies from $26.99! new only from $173.75! \| SVS
11 view cover	Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning: Towards a Social Conception of Mind more books like this by Meredith Williams, Williams Meredi add to wishlist Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning offers a provocative re-reading of Wittgenstein's later writings on language and mind, and explores the tensions between Wittgenstein's ideas and contemporary cognitivist conceptions of the mental. Williams's theme throughout is the anti-individualism that she takes to underlie Wittgenstein's criticism of Cartesian ... see all copies from $34.94! new only from $40.12! \| SVS
12 view cover	Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Mind and Brain more books like this by Daniel Kolak, William Hirstein, Peter Mandik add to wishlist "Cognitive Science" is a major new guide to the central theories and problems in the study of the mind and brain. The authors clearly explain how and why cognitive science aims to understand the brain as a computational system that manipulates representations. They identify the roots of cognitive science in Descartes - who argued that all ... see all copies from $26.62! new only from $32.75!
13 view cover	Existential Cognition: Computational Minds in the World more books like this by Ronald Albert McClamrock add to wishlist While the notion of the mind as information-processor - a kind of computational system - is widely accepted, many scientists and philosophers have assumed that this account of cognition shows that the mind's operations are characterizable independently of their relationship to the external world. This text challenges the internalist view of mind, ... see all copies from $21.79! new only from $22.00!
14	Philosophy and Cognitive Science more books like this by James H. Fetzer add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.98! \| first editions
15 view cover	Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science more books like this by Paul Thagard (Editor) add to wishlist Psychology is the study of thinking, and cognitive science is the interdisciplinary investigation of mind and intelligence that also includes philosophy, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. In these investigations, many philosophical issues arise concerning methods and central concepts. "The Handbook of Philosophy ... see all copies from $99.95! new only from $101.09! \| SVS
16 view cover	Study of Concepts more books like this by Christopher Peacocke add to wishlist Philosophers from Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein to the recent realists and antirealists have sought to answer the question: What are concepts? This book provides a detailed, systematic, and accessible introduction to an original philosophical theory of concepts that Christopher Peacocke has developed in recent years to explain facts about the ... see all copies from $23.49! new only from $23.49! \| first editions
17 view cover	Gurwitsch's Relevancy for Cognitive Science more books like this by Lester Embree (Editor) add to wishlist Findings about the central nervous system obtained with new technology, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), being too subtle to correlate with the crude results of many decades of behavioristic psychology, some psychologists were now turning to descriptions of subjective phenomena in William James, ... see all copies from $122.00! new only from $122.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Churchlands and Their Critics more books like this by Robert N McCauley add to wishlist The influence of Patricia Churchland and Paul Churchland on contemporary philosophy and cognitive science is profound and controversial. That influence is not a function of mere philosophical fashion but, rather, of their work's groundbreaking significance. By challenging so many prevailing doctrines concerning the nature of mind, knowledge, ... see all copies from $33.21! new only from $33.21! \| SVS
19	The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science, and Models of Mind more books like this by Aaron Sloman add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! first editions
20	Philosophy and Cognitive Science more books like this by Christopher Hookway (Editor), Donald Peterson (Editor) add to wishlist This volume, derived from the Royal Institute of Philosophy 1992 conference, brings together some of the leading figures in the burgeoning field of cognitive science to explore current and potential advances in the philosophical understanding of mind and cognition. Drawing on work in psychology, computer science and artificial intelligence, ... see all copies from $1.99!
21	Cognitive scepticism and Indian philosophy more books like this by Dilip Kumar Mohanta add to wishlist see all copies from $16.97! new only from $16.97! \| first editions
22 view cover	Liaisons: Philosophy Meets the Cognitive and Social Sciences more books like this by Alvin I Goldman add to wishlist These essays by a major epistemologist reconfigure philosophical projects across a wide spectrum, from mind to metaphysics, from epistemology to social power. Several of Goldman's classic essays are included along with many newer writings. Together these trace and continue the development of the author's unique blend of naturalism and reliabilism. ... see all copies from $16.98! new only from $61.97!
23	Filosofia de La Mente y de La Ciencia Cognitiva more books like this by Jose Hierro Sanchez Pescador add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $47.95! new only from $47.96!
24 view cover	How to Build Theory in Cognit Scie more books like this by Valerie Gray Hardcastle add to wishlist see all copies from $13.00! new only from $20.00!
25 view cover	Philosophy of Cognitive Science more books like this by James H Fetzer, PH.D. add to wishlist see all copies from $22.36! new only from $99.09!

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