The Search for Mind

A New Foundation for Cognitive Science

Sean O Nuallain

282 pages, parution le 14/01/2002

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Résumé

The degree to which cognitive science as currently conceived can aspire to be the science of mind is a difficult issue. This book proposes a radical new integrated approach to cognitive science. Reconstructing cognitive science in a presuppositionless way, the first part includes clear introductions to the disciplines which traditionally are seen to constitute cognitive science. From this analysis, a framework emerges in which such issues as the relation between symbolic and subsymbolic cognition, the role of embodiment, the interrelation of context, situated cognition and the structure of language, and the real causative role of affect incognition are resolved. The second part of the book focuses on the nature of symbol systems, considered generically, before going on to detail a theory of consciousness and selfhood. Finally, these strands are woven together in a new theory of cognition and its development.

It is concluded that a science that fully attempts to treat cognition must remain au fait with the findings from all other approaches to the study of mind, ranging from the purely behaviorist to the purely experiential.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I: The Constituent Disciplines of Cognitive Science

Philosophical Epistemology
Psychology
Linguistics
Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence
Ethology and Ethnoscience

Part II: A new Foundation for Cognitive Science

Symbol Systems
Consciousness and Selfhood
Cognitive Science and the Search for Mind

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index

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Commentaire de Mel F
publié le 30/03/2004 Acheteur vérifié

L'avis de philosophical psychology

This book has several aims. First, it intends to be an introduction to Cognitive Science (CS). In this sense, its target reader would be a student who wants to know and understand the background of this field, or better of its specific subdisciplines. In fact, the author examines in detail the contribution that different disciplines offer to the general enterprise of CS: epistemology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence. Even ethnoscience and ethology (rarely mentioned in this context) are considered in some chapters in the book. The book's introductory character is manifest as concepts are extensively explained, and there are glossaries for difficult terms.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Intellect Books
Auteur(s)	Sean O Nuallain
Parution	14/01/2002
Nb. de pages	282
Format	17,8 x 23,6
Couverture	Relié
Poids	733g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781841500690
ISBN13	978-1-84150-069-0