Foundations of Cognitive Science

Informationen zum Autor Joao Branquinho is Professor of Philosophy at Lisbon University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Presents a set of thirteen essays on topics in this interdisciplinary field, by a international authors. Philosophers, psychologists, and neurologists come together to investigate such subjects as consciousness, rationality, cognition, and emotion, and the relations between mind and world, for instance our representation of numbers and space. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Ned Block: How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness 2: Margaret Boden: Life and Cognition 3: Susan Carey: 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 4: Ilya Farber, Will Peterman, and Patricia Smith Churchland: The View From Here: The Nonsymbolic Structure of Spatial Representation 5: Paul M. Churchland: Toward a Cognitive Neurobiology of the Moral Virtues 6: Antonio R. Damasio: Reflections on the Neurobiology of Emotion and Feeling 7: Hanna Damasio: Words and Concepts in the Brain 8: Donald Davidson: What Thought Requires 9: Daniel C. Dennett: Things About Things 10: James T. Higginbotham: On Referential Semantics and Cognitive Science 11: Christopher Peacocke: Theories of Concepts: A Wider Task 12: Zenon W. Pylyshyn: Connecting Vision with the World: Tracking the Missing Link 13: John R. Searle: Rationality and Action Bibliography, Index of Names ...

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• Authors: Joao Branquinho, Joao (Professor of Philosophy Branquinho
• Assisted by: Jo O. Branquinho (Editor), Jo?o Branquinho (Editor), Joao Branquinho (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2001
• EAN: 9780198238898
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823889-8
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Cognition and cognitive psychology