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Klappentext Cognitive science has been dominated by a model of mental phenomena based on software--or the rules for input, output, organization, and functioning employed by a computer--which is now showing signs of losing its preeminence. In this book 28 leading scholars from diverse fields carefully consider what that think will be the future course for this intellectual movement. Zusammenfassung The model of the mind developed during the twentieth century's so-called "cognitive revolution" has lost its once unquestioned pre-eminence. This book presents judgments on the future course for this intellectual movement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction What is the Purported Discipline of Cognitive Science; and Why Does It Need to be Reassessed at the Present Moment?: The Search for "Cognitive Glue" Part 1. Good Old-Fashioned Cognitive Science: Does it have a Future? Language and Cognition Functionalism: Cognitive Science or Science Fiction? a Hilary Putnam Reassessing the Cognitive Revolution Promise and Achievement in Cognitive Science Boden's Middle Way: Viable or Not? Metasubjective Processes: the Missing "ILingua Franca of Cognitive Science Is Cognitive Science a Discipline? Anatomy of a Revolution Part 2. Cognitive Science and the Study of Language Language from an Internalist Perspective The Novelty of Chomsky's Theories Buy What Have You Done For Us Lately?: Some Recent Perspectives on Linguistic Nativism Part 3. Connectionism: A Non-Rule-Following Rival, or Supplement to the Traditional Approach? From Text to Process: Connectionism's Contribution to the Future of Cognitive Science Embodied Connectionism Neural Networks and Neuroscience: What are Connectionist Simulations Good for? Can Wittgenstein Help Free the Mind From Rules? The Philosophical Foundations of Connectionism What Might Cognition be if Not Computation? Part 4. The Ecological Alternative: Knowledge as Sensitivity to Objectively Existing Facts The Future of Cognitive Science: An Ecological Analysis The Cognitive Revolution from an Ecological Point of View Part 5. Challenges to Cognitive Science: The Cultural Approach Will Cognitive Revolutions Ever Stop? Neural Cartesianism: Comments on the Epistemology of the Cognitive Sciences Language, Action and Mind Cognition as a Social Practice: From Computer Power to Word Power `Berkeleyan' Arguments and the Ontology of Cognitive Science Part 6. Historical Approaches The Mind from an Historical Perspective: Human Cognitive Phylogenesis and the Possibility of Continuing Cognitive Evolution Taking the Past Seriously: How History Shows that Eliminativists' Account of Folk Psychology is Partly Right and Partly Wrong Afterword Cognitive Science and the Future of Psychology - Challenges and Opportunities ...
