The Foundations of Cognitive Science

Buch | Softcover

284 Seiten

2001
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
9780198238898 (ISBN)

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Presents a set of thirteen essays on topics in this interdisciplinary field, by a international authors. Philosophers, psychologists, and neurologists come together to investigate such subjects as consciousness, rationality, cognition, and emotion, and the relations between mind and world, for instance our representation of numbers and space.

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.

Joao Branquinho is Professor of Philosophy at Lisbon University.

Introduction ; 1. How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness ; 2. Life and Cognition ; 3. 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. The View From Here: The Nonsymbolic Structure of Spatial Representation ; 5. Toward a Cognitive Neurobiology of the Moral Virtues ; 6. Reflections on the Neurobiology of Emotion and Feeling ; 7. Words and Concepts in the Brain ; 8. What Thought Requires ; 9. Things About Things ; 10. On Referential Semantics and Cognitive Science ; 11. Theories of Concepts: A Wider Task ; 12. Connecting Vision with the World: Tracking the Missing Link ; 13. Rationality and Action ; Bibliography, Index of Names

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.7.2001
Zusatzinfo	line figures
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	423 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9780198238898 / 9780198238898
Zustand	Neuware