Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Published on 28. January 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-0-521-45763-7 (ISBN)
Description
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, linguistics and philosophy, the papers tackle such issues as concept acquisition, blindsight, rationality and related questions as well as contributing to the lively debates about connectionism and neural networks. The collection as a whole reflects the theoretical and methodological dynamism of this interdisciplinary field.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-45763-7 (9780521457637)
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Content
Preface; List of contributors; Naturalizing epistemology: Quine, Simon and the prospects for pragmatism Stephen Stich; Blindsight, the absent qualia hypothesis, and the mystery of consciousness Michael Tye; Do your concepts develop? Andrew Woodfield; The mind as a control system Aaron Sloman; On the notions of specification and implementation Antony Galton; Wittgenstein and connectionism: a significant complementarity? Stephen Mills; Levels of description in nonclassical cognitive science Terence Horgan and John Tiensen; Systematicity in the vision to language chain Niels Ole Bernsen; Systematicity, conceptual truth, and evolution Brian McLaughlin; Index of names.