'Many of the papers will serve as ideal introductions to their given domains and, taken collectively, readers will be given a broad grounding in this fascinating area of study.' Sam Clarke, Philosophical Psychology

Cognitive science is a cross-disciplinary enterprise devoted to understanding the nature of the mind. In recent years, investigators in philosophy, psychology, the neurosciences, artificial intelligence, and a host of other disciplines have come to appreciate how much they can learn from one another about the various dimensions of cognition. The result has been the emergence of one of the most exciting and fruitful areas of inter-disciplinary research in the history of science. This volume of original essays surveys foundational, theoretical, and philosophical issues across the discipline, and introduces the foundations of cognitive science, the principal areas of research, and the major research programs. With a focus on broad philosophical themes rather than detailed technical issues, the volume will be valuable not only to cognitive scientists and philosophers of cognitive science, but also to those in other disciplines looking for an authoritative and up-to-date introduction to the field.
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List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Keith Frankish and William M. Ramsey; Part I. Foundations: 1. History and core themes Adele Abrahamsen and William Bechtel; 2. The representational theory of mind Barbara Von Eckardt; 3. Cognitive architectures Paul Thagard; Part II. Aspects of Cognition: 4. Perception Casey O'Callaghan; 5. Action Elisabeth Pacherie; 6. Human learning and memory Charan Ranganath, Laura A. Libby and Ling Wong; 7. Reasoning and decision making Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater and Neil Stewart; 8. Concepts Gregory L. Murphy and Aaron B. Hoffman; 9. Language Ray Jackendoff; 10. Emotion Jesse Prinz; 11. Consciousness William G. Lycan; Part III. Research Programs: 12. Cognitive neuroscience Dominic Standage and Thomas Trappenberg; 13. Evolutionary psychology H. Clark Barrett; 14. Embodied, embedded, and extended cognition Andy Clark; 15. Animal cognition Sara J. Shettleworth; Glossary; Index.
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An authoritative, up-to-date survey of the state of the art in cognitive science, written for non-specialists.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780521871419
Publisert
2012-07-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
840 gr
Høyde
249 mm
Bredde
173 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
348

Biographical note

Keith Frankish is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at The Open University, UK and Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Program in Neurosciences at the University of Crete. He is the author of Mind and Supermind (Cambridge, 2004) and Consciousness (2005). He is co-editor of In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond (with Jonathan St B. T. Evans, 2009) and New Waves in Philosophy of Action (with Jesús H. Aguilar and Andrei A. Buckareff, 2010). William M. Ramsey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of Representation Reconsidered (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and co-editor of Philosophy and Connectionist Theory (with David Rumelhart and Stephen Stich, 1991) and Rethinking Intuition (with Michael DePaul, 1998).