ISBN:
0585020531
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0262220466
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9780262220460
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9780585020532
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 466 p
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 1999 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
Series Statement:
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Parallel Title:
Print version What is cognitive science?
Keywords:
Cognitive science.
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Cognition.
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Cognitive science
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Cognitive science
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Cognitive science.
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Cognition.
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Cognition
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Some Preliminaries. 1.1. Research Frameworks. 1.2. An Example of Cognitive Science Research. 1.3. The Characterization in Brief2. The Domain and the Basic Questions. 2.1. The Identification Assumption. 2.2. The Property Assumptions. 2.3. The Grouping Assumption. 2.4. The Basic Questions -- 3. The Computational Assumption. 3.1. The Computational Linking Assumption. 3.2. The Computational System Assumption. 3.3. Conventional Machines. 3.4. Connectionist Machines. 3.5. The Evolution of Cognitive Science -- 4. Representation in General. 4.1. The Representational Linking Assumption. 4.2. Peirce's Triadic Analysis. 4.3. The Representation-Object Relation. 4.4. The Representation-Interpretant Relation. 4.5. The Representational System Assumption -- 5. Mental Representation. 5.1. What Mental Representations Are Not. 5.2. The Representation Bearer. 5.3. The Semantics of Mental Representation -- 6. Current Approaches to Content Determination. 6.1. Grounding Mental Content. 6.2. The Structural Isomorphism Approach. 6.3. The Functional Role Approach. 6.4. The Causal Historical Approach. 6.5. The Indicator Approach. 6.6. The Biological Function Approach -- 7. Constraints on a Theory of Content Determination. 7.1. Naturalism. 7.2. The Descriptive Case against Internalism. 7.3. A Normative Case for Internalism. 7.4. Methodological Individualism -- 8. Significance. 8.1. Peirce's View. 8.2. The Regress Problem in Cognitive Science. 8.3. An Inadequate Solution. 8.4. Cognitive Science's Solution -- 9. The Methodological Assumptions. 9.1. The Explanatory Strategy of Cognitive Science. 9.2. The Study of Cognition. 9.3. The Role of Neuroscience. 9.4. Explanatory Ineliminability. Epilogue: Some Challenges for the Future -- Appendix: Characterizing an Immature Science -- A.1: The Logical Positivist Tradition -- A.2: Kuhn's Notion of a Paradigm -- A.3: Laudan's Notion of a Research Tradition.
Note:
"A Bradford book."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-457) and index
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Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 1999
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