Modelling the mind / edited by K.A. Mohyeldin Said ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Said, K. A. Mohyeldin (Karim A. Mohyeldin)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive science--Congresses.

Cognitive science.

Philosophy of mind--Congresses.

Philosophy of mind.

Artificial intelligence--Congresses.

Artificial intelligence.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 216 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Summary:

This collection by a distinguished group of philosophers, psychologists, and physiologists reflects an interdisciplinary approach to the central question of cognitive science: how do we model the mind? Among the topics explored are the relationships (theoretical, reductive, and explanatory) between philosophy, psychology, computer science, and physiology; what should be asked of models in science generally, and in cognitive science in particular; whether theoretical models must make essential reference to objects in the environment; whether there are human competences that are resistant, in principle, to modelling; whether simulated thinking and intentionality are really thinking and intentionality; how semantics can be generated from syntactics; the meaning of the terms "representations" and "modelling;" whether the nature of the "hardware" matters; and whether computer models of humans are "dehumanizing." Contributors include Donald Davidson, Daniel C. Dennett, Margaret A. Boden, Adam Morton, Dennis Noble, T. Poggio, Colin Blakemore, K.V. Wilkes, P.N. Johnson-Laird, and Jonathan St. B.T. Evans.

Contents:

1. Turing's Test / Donald Davidson 1

2. Representation and Interpretation / Donald Davidson 13

3. Semantics and Subroutines / Adam Morton 27

4. The Myth of Original Intentionality / Daniel C. Dennett 43

5. Modelling the Mind / K. V. Wilkes 63

6. Computer Models of Mind: Are they Socially Pernicious? / Margaret A. Boden 83

7. Biological Explanation and Intentional Behaviour / Denis Noble 97

8. A Mechanistic Approach to Perception and the Human Mind / Colin Blakemore 113

9. Vision: The 'Other' Face of AI / T. Poggio 139

10. Human Thinking and Mental Models / P. N. Johnson-Laird 155

11. Deductive Reasoning in Human Information Processing / Jonathan St B. T. Evans 171.

Notes:

Selected papers from a conference entitled Human mind--artificial mind, held in April 1985 in Turin, organized by the Istituto di metodologia e filosofia della scienza, and from the Oxford University cognitive science seminars held also around that time in Oxford.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-213) and index.

ISBN:

019824973X :

OCLC:

20824262