Contemporary debates in cognitive science / edited by Robert J. Stainton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stainton, Robert.

Series:

Contemporary debates in philosophy ; 7.

Contemporary debates in philosophy ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive science--Philosophy.

Cognitive science.

Physical Description:

xiv, 339 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Summary:

This volume introduces central issues in cognitive science by means of debates on key questions.Renowned experts in the field contribute to the debates from different perspectives, covering the middle ground as well as the extremes. They address such topics as the degree of modularity of the mind, the amount of innate knowledge, whether human cognition is bounded, the role of perception in action, the place of external elements in mental states, and the importance of rules and representations for explaining systematicity.The volume as a whole provides a valuable overview of the field in a clear and easily comprehensible form.

Contents:

Just How Modular is the Mind? 1

1 The Case for Massively Modular Models of Mind / Peter Carruthers 3

2 Is the Mind Really Modular? / Jesse J. Prinz 22

3 Is the Human Mind Massively Modular? / Richard Samuels 37

How Much Knowledge of Language is Innate? 57

4 Irrational Nativist Exuberance / Barbara C. Scholz, Geoffrey K. Pullum 59

5 The Case for Linguistic Nativism / Robert J. Matthews 81

6 On the Innateness of Language / James McGilvray 97

Has Cognitive Science Shown That Human Beings Are Cognitively Bounded, or Irrational? 113

7 Bounded and Rational / Gerd Gigerenzer 115

8 Bounded Rationality and the Enlightenment Picture of Cognitive Virtue / David Matheson 134

Are Rules and Representations Necessary to Explain Systematicity? 145

9 Cognition Needs Syntax but not Rules / Terence Horgan, John Tienson 147

10 Phenomena and Mechanisms: Putting the Symbolic, Connectionist, and Dynamical Systems Debate in Broader Perspective / Adele Abrahamsen, William Bechtel 159

Can Consciousness and Qualia be Reduced? 187

11 Consciousness and Qualia Can Be Reduced / William G. Lycan 189

12 Consciousness and Qualia Cannot Be Reduced / Brie Gertler 202

Does Cognitive Science Need External Content at All? 217

13 Locating Meaning in the Mind (Where It Belongs) / Ray Jackendoff 219

14 The Intentional Inexistence of Language - But Not Cars / Georges Rey 237

Is the Aim of Perception to Provide Accurate Representations? 257

15 Is the Aim of Perception to Provide Accurate Representations? / Kirk Ludwig 259

16 Is the Aim of Perception to Provide Accurate Representations? A Case for the "No" Side / Christopher Viger 275

Can Mental States, Knowledge in Particular, be Divided Into a Narrow Component and a Broad Component? 289

17 Can Cognition be Factorized into Internal and External Components? / Timothy Williamson 291

18 The Internal and External Components of Cognition / Ralph Wedgwood 307.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1405113049

1405113057

OCLC:

61684157

Publisher Number:

9781405113045

9781405113052