Models and cognition : prediction and explanation in everyday life and in science / Jonathan A. Waskan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waskan, Jonathan A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind.

Cognitive science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In this book, Jonathan Waskan challenges cognitive science's dominant model of mental representation and proposes a novel, well-devised alternative. The traditional view in the cognitive sciences uses a linguistic (propositional) model of mental representation. This logic-based model of cognition informs and constrains both the classical tradition of artificial intelligence and modeling in the connectionist tradition. It falls short, however, when confronted by the frame problem - the lack of a principled way to determine which features of a representation must be updated when new information becomes available. Proposed alternatives, including the imagistic model, have not so far resolved this problem. Waskan proposes instead the Intrinsic Cognitive Models (ICM) hypothesis, which argues that representational states can be conceptualized as the cognitive equivalent of scale models."--Jacket.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 - Thoughts about the Mind: Past, Present, and Future

2 - Folk Psychology and Cognitive Science

3 - Content, Supervenience, and Cognitive Science

4 - Dueling Metaphors

5 - Thinking in Its Entirety

6 - From Metaphor to Mechanism

7 - Models of Explanation

8 - The Model Model

9 - Mind and World

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-317) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-09742-3

9786612097423

0-262-28582-7

1-4294-7775-X

OCLC:

605961696