Paul Thagard (ed.)

Mind Readings

Introductory Selections on Cognitive Science
Herausgeber: Thagard, Paul

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Produktbeschreibung

Mind Readings is a collection of accessible readings on some of the mostimportant topics in cognitive science. Although anyone interested in theinterdisciplinary study of mind will find the selections well worth reading, theywork particularly well with Paul Thagard's textbook Mind: An Introduction CognitiveScience, and provide further discussion on the major topics discussed in that book.The first eight chapters present approaches to cognitive science from theperspective that thinking consists of computational procedures on mentalrepresentations. The remaining five chapters discuss challenges to thecomputational-representational understanding of mind.Contributors: John R.Anderson, Ruth M. J. Byrne, E. H. Durfee, Chris Eliasmith, Owen Flanagan, DedreGentner, Janice Glasgow, Philip N. Johnson-Laird, Alan Mackworth, Arthur B. Markman, Douglas L. Medin, Keith Oatley, Dimitri Papadias, Steven Pinker, David E. Rumelhart, Herbert A. Simon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780262700672
• ISBN-10: 0262700670
• Artikelnr.: 21980584

Autorenporträt

Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of The Cognitive Science of Science (MIT Press, 2012) and many other books.