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The philosophy of cognitive science is concerned with fundamental philosophical and theoretical questions connected to the sciences of the mind. How does the brain give rise to conscious experience? Does speaking a language change how we think? Is a genuinely intelligent computer possible? What features of the mind are innate? Advances in cognitive science have given philosophers important tools for addressing these sorts of questions; and cognitive scientists have, in turn, found themselves drawing upon insights from philosophy-insights that have often taken their research in novel directions.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science brings together twenty-one newly commissioned chapters by leading researchers in this rich and fast-growing area of philosophy. It is an indispensible resource for anyone who seeks to understand the implications of cognitive science for philosophy, and the role of philosophy within cognitive science.
List of contents
- 1. Introduction: Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Richard Samuels, Eric Margolis, and Stephen P. Stich
- 2. Consciousness and Cognition, Robert Van Gulick
- 3. Reasoning and Rationality, Collin Allen, Peter M. Todd, and Jonathan M. Weinberg
- 4. Massive Modularity, Richard Samuels
- 5. Perception and Multimodality, Casey O'Callaghan
- 6. Embodied Cognition, Lawrence A. Shapiro
- 7. Artificial Intelligence, B. Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot
- 8. Emotions: How Many Are Three?, Jesse J. Prinz
- 9. Attention, Christopher Mole
- 10. Computationalism, Gualtiero Piccinini
- 11. Representationalism, Frances Egan
- 12. Cognition and the Brain, Rick Grush and Lisa Damm
- 13. The Scope of the Conceptual, Stephen Laurence and Eric Margolis
- 14. Innateness, Steven Gross and Georges Rey
- 15. The Language Faculty, Paul Pietroski and Stephen Crain
- 16. Language in Cognition, Peter Carruthers
- 17. Theory of Mind, Alvin I. Goldman
- 18. Broadminded: Sociality and the Cognitive Science of Morality, John M. Doris and Shaun Nichols
- 19. Conceptual Development: The Case of Essentialism, Susan A. Gelman and Elizabeth Ware
- 20. Evolutionary Psychology, Ben Jeffares and Kim Sterelny
- 21. Culture and Cognition, Daniel M.T. Fessler and Edouard Machery
- 22. Experimental Philosophy, Joshua Knobe
About the author
Eric Margolis is Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Richard Samuels is Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University.
Stephen Stich is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University.
Summary
This volume offers an overview of the philosophy of cognitive science that balances breadth and depth, with chapters covering every aspect of the psychology and cognitive anthropology.
Additional text
Editors Margolis, Samuels, and Stich have collected essays from an all-star cast of philosophers working on the frontier of the philosophy of cognitive science.
