Mind readings : introductory selections on cognitive science

Author(s)

• Thagard, Paul

Bibliographic Information

Mind readings : introductory selections on cognitive science

edited by Paul Thagard

（Bradford book）

MIT Press, c1998

• : pbk

Note

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Mind Readings is a collection of accessible readings on some of the most important topics in cognitive science. Although anyone interested in the interdisciplinary study of mind will find the selections well worth reading, they work particularly well with Paul Thagard's textbook Mind: An Introduction Cognitive Science, and provide further discussion on the major topics discussed in that book. The first eight chapters present approaches to cognitive science from the perspective that thinking consists of computational procedures on mental representations. The remaining five chapters discuss challenges to the computational-representational understanding of mind. Contributors John R. Anderson, Ruth M.J. Byrne, E.H. Durfee, Chris Eliasmith, Owen Flanagan, Dedre Gentner, Janice Glasgow, Philip N. Johnson-Laird, Alan Mackworth, Arthur B. Markman, Douglas L. Medin, Keith Oatley, Dimitri Papadias, Steven Pinker, David E. Rumelhart, Herbert A. Simon.

Table of Contents

• What is an "explanation " of behaviour? Herbert A. Simon
• the cognitive science of deduction, Philip N. Johnson-Laird, Ruth M.J. Byrne
• production systems and the ACT-R theory, John R. Anderson
• rules of language, Steven Pinker
• concepts and conceptual structure, Douglas L. Medin
• structure mapping in analogy and similarity, Dedre Gentner, Arthur B. Markman
• computational imagery, Janice Glasgow, Dimitri Papadias
• the architecture of mind - a connectionist approach, David E. Rumelhart
• the structure of emotions, Keith Oatley
• a unified theory of consciousness? Owen Flanagan
• on seeing robots, Alan Mackworth
• what your computer really needs to know, you learned in kindergarten, E.H. Durfee.

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Details

• NCID: BA35704615
• ISBN:
  • 0262700670
• LCCN: 97038748
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 344 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BF316.6
  • DC21 : 153
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mental representation
  • LCSH : Intellect
  • LCSH : Thought and thinking
  • LCSH : Cognitive science
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00245453