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ISBN: 9780262287814 | 872 pp. | November 1993

Topics

 AI/Computational Modelling
Algorithm
Bayesian Modelling
Complexity/Complex Systems/Dynamic Systems
Connectionism
Turing Test
 Evolution/Culture
Folk Psychology
Numeracy
 Linguistics/Language
Ambiguity
Discourse Analysis
Generative Grammar
Grammatical Relations
Language
Language Acquisition
Lexicon
Linguistic Universal and Universal Grammar
Linguistics
Natural Language
Phonetics
Psycholinguistics
Semantics
Syntax
Tense and Aspect
 Neuroscience
Basal Ganglia
Brain
Cerebellum
Cerebral Cortex
Cognitive Neuroscience
Hemispheric Specialization
Hippocampus
Neural Networks
Pain
Visual Anatomy and Physiology
 Philosophy of Mind
Empiricism
Explanation
Functionalism
Intentionality
Logic
Moral Psychology
Natural Kinds
Physicalism
Propositional Attitudes
Qualia
 Psychology I: Foundations of Cognition
Color Vision
Conditioning/Priming
Consciousness
Depth Perception
Emotion/Affect
Perception and Sensation
Vision
Visual Object Recognition
 Psychology II: High-Level Cognition
Beliefs
Cognitive Development
Cognitive Maps
Concepts/Concept Formation
Deductive Reasoning
Heuristics
Induction
Inference
Intelligence
Judgment and Decision Making
Knowledge
Memory
Memory, Episodic
Memory, Explicit
Memory, Implicit
Memory, Semantic
Mental Models
Mental Representation
Problem Solving
Scientific Thinking

Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Edited by Alvin I. Goldman
Overview

This collection of readings shows how cognitive science can influence most of the primary branches of philosophy, as well as how philosophy critically examines the foundations of cognitive science. Its broad coverage extends beyond current texts that focus mainly on the impact of cognitive science on philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology, to include materials that are relevant to five other branches of philosophy: epistemology, philosophy of science (and mathematics), metaphysics, language, and ethics.

The readings are organized by philosophical fields, with selections evenly divided between philosophers and cognitive scientists. They draw on research in numerous areas of cognitive science, including cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, psychology of reasoning and judgment, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and neuropsychology. There are timely treatments of current topics and debates such as the innate understanding of number, children's theory of mind, self-knowledge, consciousness, connectionism, and ethics and cognitive science.

Table of Contents

  1. Contributors

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  2. Introduction

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  3. 1. Visual Object Recognition

    Irving Biederman

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  4. 2. Deductive Reasoning

    John H. Holland, Keith J. Holyoak, Richard E. Nisbett and Paul R. Thagard

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  5. 3. Probabilistic Reasoning

    Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman

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  6. 4. Our Native Inferential Tendencies

    Hilary Kornblith

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  7. 5. Epistemic Folkways and Scientific Epistemology

    Alvin I. Goldman

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  8. 6. Observation Reconsidered

    Jerry A. Fodor

    PDF (1.7 MB)

  9. 7. Perceptual Plasticity and Theoretical Neutrality: A Reply to Jerry Fodor

    Paul M. Churchland

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  10. 8. Explanatory Coherence

    Paul R. Thagard

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  11. 9. Scientific Discovery

    Pat Langley, Herbert A. Simon, Gary L. Bradshaw and Jan M. Zytkow

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  12. 10. Evidence against Empiricist Accounts of the Origins of Numerical Knowledge

    Karen Wynn

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  13. 11. Troubles with Functionalism

    Ned Block

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  14. 12. Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes

    Paul M. Churchland

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  15. 13. Fodor's Guide to Mental Representation: The Intelligent Auntie's Vade-Mecum

    Jerry A. Fodor

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  16. 14. Misrepresentation

    Fred I. Dretske

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  17. 15. How We Know Our Minds: The Illusion of First-Person Knowledge of Intentionality

    Alison Gopnik

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  18. 16. The Psychology of Folk Psychology

    Alvin I. Goldman

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  19. 17. Quining Qualia

    Daniel C. Dennett

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  20. 18. Neuropsychological Evidence for a Consciousness System

    Daniel L. Schacter

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  21. 19. Object Perception

    Elizabeth S. Spelke

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  22. 20. Ontological Categories Guide Young Children's Inductions of Word Meaning

    Nancy N. Soja, Susan Carey and Elizabeth S. Spelke

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  23. 21. Some Elements of Conceptual Structure

    Ray Jackendoff

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  24. 22. Color Subjectivism

    C. L. Hardin

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  25. 23. On the Nature, Use, and Acquisition of Language

    Noam Chomsky

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  26. 24. On Learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs

    David E. Rumelhart and James L. McClelland

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  27. 25. Critique of Rumelhart and McClelland

    Andy Clark

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  28. 26. The Mental Representation of the Meaning of Words

    Philip N. Johnson-Laird

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  29. 27. Brain and Language

    Antonia R. Damasio and Hanna Demasio

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  30. 28. Meaning, Other People, and the World

    Hilary Putnam

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  31. 29. Ethics and Cognitive Science

    Alvin I. Goldman

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  32. 30. The Contribution of Empathy to Justice and Moral Judgment

    Martin L. Hoffman

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  33. 31. Situations and Dispositions

    Owen Flanagan

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  34. 32. Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis

    Stephen P. Stich

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  35. 33. Individualism and Psychology

    Tyler Burge

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  36. 34. The Co-evolutionary Research Ideology

    Patricia S. Churchland

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  37. 35. On the Proper Treatment of Connectionism

    Paul Smolensky

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  38. 36. Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture

    Jerry A. Fodor and Zenon W. Pylyshyn

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  39. 37. The Computer Model of the Mind

    Ned Block

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  40. 38. The Critique of Cognitive Reason

    John R. Searle

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  41. Index

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