Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science

(ed.)
Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (2006)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This volume introduces central issues in cognitive science by means of debates on key questions. The debates are written by renowned experts in the field. The debates cover the middle ground as well as the extremes Addresses topics such as the amount of innate knowledge, bounded rationality and the role of perception in action. Provides valuable overview of the field in a clear and easily comprehensible form

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

2008

Call number

BF311.C659 2006

ISBN(s)

9781405113052   9781405113045   9780470797259   1405113057   1405113049
View all bargains

Buy this book

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,122

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Chapters

Phenomena and mechanisms: Putting the symbolic, connectionist, and dynamical systems debate in broader perspective.Adele A. Abrahamsen & William P. Bechtel
The case for massively modular models of mind.Peter Carruthers
The case for massively modular models of mind.P. Carruthers
Bounded and Rational.Gigerenzer Gerd
Consciousness and Qualia Cannot Be Reduced.Brie Gertler
Cognition needs syntax but not rules.Terence E. Horgan & John L. Tienson
Locating meaning in the mind (where it belongs).Ray S. Jackendoff
Is the aim of perception to provide accurate representations?Kirk A. Ludwig
Consciousness and Qualia Can Be Reduced.William G. Lycan
Bounded rationality, epistemic externalism and the Enlightenment picture of cognitive virtue.D. Matheson
The case for linguistic nativism.Robert J. Matthews
On the innateness of language.James A. McGilvray
Is the mind really modular?Jesse J. Prinz
The intentional inexistence of language — but not cars.Georges Rey
Is the human mind massively modular?Richard Samuels
Is the human mind massively modular?R. Samuels
Irrational nativist exuberance.Barbara C. Scholz & Geoffrey K. Pullum
Is the aim of perception to provide accurate representations? A case for the 'no' side.Christopher D. Viger
The internal and external components of cognition.Ralph Wedgwood
Can cognition be factorized into internal and external components?Timothy Williamson

Similar books and articles

Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science.Robert Stainton (ed.) - 2006 - Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science.Robert Stainton (ed.) - 2006 - Malden MA: Blackwell.
Bounded rationality, epistemic externalism and the Enlightenment picture of cognitive virtue.D. Matheson - 2006 - In Robert J. Stainton (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 134--144.
Nativism in cognitive science.Richard Samuels - 2002 - Mind and Language 17 (3):233-65.
The Nature of Cognitive Phenomenology.Declan Smithies - 2013 - Philosophy Compass 8 (8):744-754.
The Significance of Cognitive Phenomenology.Declan Smithies - 2013 - Philosophy Compass 8 (8):731-743.
Is the aim of perception to provide accurate representations? A case for the 'no' side.Christopher D. Viger - 2006 - In Robert J. Stainton (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Is the aim of perception to provide accurate representations?Kirk A. Ludwig - 2006 - In Robert J. Stainton (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 259-274.
Bounded and Rational.Gigerenzer Gerd - 2006 - In Robert J. Stainton (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 115--133.
Parallel Distributed Processing at 25: Further Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition.Timothy T. Rogers & James L. McClelland - 2014 - Cognitive Science 38 (6):1024-1077.
Philosophy and Cognitive Science.Christopher Hookway & Donald M. Peterson (eds.) - 1993 - Cambridge University Press.
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind.Brian P. McLaughlin & Jonathan Cohen (eds.) - 2007 - Wiley-Blackwell.
Phenomena and mechanisms: Putting the symbolic, connectionist, and dynamical systems debate in broader perspective.Adele A. Abrahamsen & William P. Bechtel - 2006 - In Robert J. Stainton (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
The Contingency of Science and the Future of Philosophy.Ian James Kidd - 2011 - In Eric Dietrich & Zach Weber (eds.), Essays in Philosophy. pp. 312--328.
The theory of knowledge: a thematic introduction.Paul K. Moser (ed.) - 1998 - New York: Oxford University Press.

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-10-15

Downloads
29 (#497,788)

6 months
6 (#292,930)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Robert Stainton
Western University

Citations of this work

Intuitions in linguistics.Michael Devitt - 2006 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57 (3):481-513.
Why Language Exists.Fritz J. McDonald - 2012 - Croatian Journal of Philosophy 12 (1):1-12.
Ethics and the Nature of Action.Heine A. Holmen - 2011 - Dissertation, University of Oslo

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references