The foundations of cognitive science / edited by João Branquinho.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Branquinho, João.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive science.

Physical Description:

xlvii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

How not to find the neural correlate of consciousness / Ned Block

Life and cognition / Margaret Boden

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 / Susan Carey

The view from here: the nonsymbolic structure of spatial representation / Ilya Farber, Will Peterman, and Patricia Smith Churchland

Toward a cognitive neurobiology of the moral virtues / Paul M. Churchland

Reflections on the neurobiology of emotion and feeling / Antonio R. Damasio

Words and concepts in the brain / Hanna Damasio

What thought requires / Donald Davidson

Things about things / Daniel C. Dennett

On referential semantics and cognitve science / James T. Higginbotham

Theories of concepts: a wider task / Christopher Peacocke

Connecting vision with the world: tracking the missing link / Zenon W. Pylyshyn

Rationality and action / John R. Searle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-228) and index.

ISBN:

0198238894

0198238908

OCLC:

45784346