Human and Machine Thinking

This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind -- psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, linguists, and other cognitive scientists -- it also provides general readers with a self-contained account of human and machine thinking. The author presents his point of view, rather than a review, as simply as possible so that no technical background is required. Like the field of research itself, it calls for hard thinking about thinking.

List of contents

Contents: Deduction. Induction. Creation.

About the author

Philip N. Johnson-Laird

Product details

• Authors: Philip N Johnson-Laird, Philip N. Johnson-Laird, Johnson-Laird Philip N.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1992
• EAN: 9780805809213
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-0921-3
• No. of pages: 210
• Weight: 530 g
• Series: Distinguished Lecture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; machine learning, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, COMPUTERS / Data Science / Machine Learning