Joao Branquinho (ed.)

The Foundations of Cognitive Science

Herausgeber: Branquinho, Joao; Branquinho, Jo O.; Branquinho, Jo?o

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The "Foundations of Cognitive Science" is a set of thirteen new essays on key topics in this lively interdisciplinary field, by a stellar international line-up of authors. Philosophers, psychologists, and neurologists here come together to investigate such fascinating subjects as consciousness; vision; rationality; artificial life; the neural basis of language, cognition, and emotion; and the relations between mind and world, for instance our representation of numbers and space. The contributors are Ned Block, Margaret Boden, Susan Carey, Patricia Churchland, Paul Churchland, Antonio Damasio, Hanna Damasio, Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, Ilya Farber, James Higginbotham, Christopher Peacocke, Will Peterman, Zenon Pylyshyn, John Searle. Anyone interested in the exploration of the human mind will enjoy this book.

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Written by a stellar group of internationally renowned scholars, this work gathers thirteen new essays on key topics in the lively, interdisciplinary field of cognitive science. Philosophers, psychologists, and neurologists come together to investigate such fascinating subjects as the neural basis of language, cognition, and emotion; consciousness; vision; rationality; artificial life; and the relations between mind and world--our representation of numbers and space, for instance. For anyone who has ever been fascinated by the exploration of the human mind, this book is a must.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780198238898
• ISBN-10: 0198238894
• Artikelnr.: 21144939

Autorenporträt

Joao Branquinho is Professor of Philosophy at Lisbon University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Ned Block: How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness
* 2: Margaret Boden: Life and Cognition
* 3: Susan Carey: The Representation of Number in Natural Language
Syntax and in the Language of Thought: A Case Study of the Evolution
and Development of Representational Resources
* 4: Ilya Farber, Will Peterman, and Patricia Smith Churchland: The
View From Here: The Nonsymbolic Structure of Spatial Representation
* 5: Paul M. Churchland: Toward a Cognitive Neurobiology of the Moral
Virtues
* 6: Antonio R. Damasio: Reflections on the Neurobiology of Emotion and
Feeling
* 7: Hanna Damasio: Words and Concepts in the Brain
* 8: Donald Davidson: What Thought Requires
* 9: Daniel C. Dennett: Things About Things
* 10: James T. Higginbotham: On Referential Semantics and Cognitive
Science
* 11: Christopher Peacocke: Theories of Concepts: A Wider Task
* 12: Zenon W. Pylyshyn: Connecting Vision with the World: Tracking the
Missing Link
* 13: John R. Searle: Rationality and Action
* Bibliography, Index of Names