The Future of the Cognitive Revolution

The Future of the Cognitive Revolution
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : 9780195103342
ISBN-13 : 0195103343
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Book Synopsis The Future of the Cognitive Revolution by : David Martel Johnson

Download or read book The Future of the Cognitive Revolution written by David Martel Johnson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive science has been dominated by a model of mental phenomena based on software--or the rules for input, output, organization, and functioning employed by a computer--which is now showing signs of losing its preeminence. In this book 28 leading scholars from diverse fields carefully consider what that think will be the future course for this intellectual movement.

The Future of the Cognitive Revolution

The Future of the Cognitive Revolution
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : 9780195356045
ISBN-13 : 0195356047
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Book Synopsis The Future of the Cognitive Revolution by : David Johnson

Download or read book The Future of the Cognitive Revolution written by David Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-24 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic idea of the particular way of understanding mental phenomena that has inspired the "cognitive revolution" is that, as a result of certain relatively recent intellectual and technological innovations, informed theorists now possess a more powerfully insightful comparison or model for mind than was available to any thinkers in the past. The model in question is that of software, or the list of rules for input, output, and internal transformations by which we determine and control the workings of a computing machine's hardware. Although this comparison and its many implications have dominated work in the philosophy, psychology, and neurobiology of mind since the end of the Second World War, it now shows increasing signs of losing its once virtually unquestioned preeminence. Thus we now face the question of whether it is possible to repair and save this model by means of relatively inessential "tinkering", or whether we must reconceive it fundamentally and replace it with something different. In this book, twenty-eight leading scholars from diverse fields of "cognitive science"-linguistics, psychology, neurophysiology, and philosophy- present their latest, carefully considered judgements about what they think will be the future course of this intellectual movement, that in many respects has been a watershed in our contemporary struggles to comprehend that which is crucially significant about human beings. Jerome Bruner, Noam Chomsky, Margaret Boden, Ulric Neisser, Rom Harre, Merlin Donald, among others, have all written chapters in a non-technical style that can be enjoyed and understood by an inter-disciplinary audience of psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, linguists, and cognitive scientists alike.

The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture

The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 1349099902
ISBN-13 : 9781349099900
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Book Synopsis The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture by : Don LePan

Download or read book The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture written by Don LePan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LePan challenges the assumption that everybody thinks in the same way by examining a particular mental faculty - expectation. He concludes that certain forms of expectation did not exist in the minds of most medieval people, any more than they do in children or adults in many primitive societies.

The Evolution of Mind

The Evolution of Mind
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 0195110536
ISBN-13 : 9780195110531
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Book Synopsis The Evolution of Mind by : Denise D. Cummins

Download or read book The Evolution of Mind written by Denise D. Cummins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Evolution of Mind, outstanding figures on the cutting edge of evolutionary psychology follow clues provided by current neuroscientific evidence to illuminate many puzzling questions of human cognitive evolution. With contributions from psychologists, ethologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, the book offers a broad range of approaches to explore the mysteries of the mind's evolution - from investigating the biological functions of human cognition to drawing comparisons between human and animal cognitive abilities.

Cognition in the Wild

Cognition in the Wild
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 403
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ISBN-10 : 9780262581462
ISBN-13 : 0262581469
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Book Synopsis Cognition in the Wild by : Edwin Hutchins

Download or read book Cognition in the Wild written by Edwin Hutchins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996-08-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation—its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organization, and the details of its implementation in actual practice aboard large ships. The result is an unusual interdisciplinary approach to cognition in culturally constituted activities outside the laboratory—"in the wild." Hutchins examines a set of phenomena that have fallen in the cracks between the established disciplines of psychology and anthropology, bringing to light a new set of relationships between culture and cognition. The standard view is that culture affects the cognition of individuals. Hutchins argues instead that cultural activity systems have cognitive properties of their own that are different from the cognitive properties of the individuals who participate in them. Each action for bringing a large naval vessel into port, for example, is informed by culture: the navigation team can be seen as a cognitive and computational system. Introducing Navy life and work on the bridge, Hutchins makes a clear distinction between the cognitive properties of an individual and the cognitive properties of a system. In striking contrast to the usual laboratory tasks of research in cognitive science, he applies the principal metaphor of cognitive science—cognition as computation (adopting David Marr's paradigm)—to the navigation task. After comparing modern Western navigation with the method practiced in Micronesia, Hutchins explores the computational and cognitive properties of systems that are larger than an individual. He then turns to an analysis of learning or change in the organization of cognitive systems at several scales. Hutchins's conclusion illustrates the costs of ignoring the cultural nature of cognition, pointing to the ways in which contemporary cognitive science can be transformed by new meanings and interpretations. A Bradford Book

Infant Perception and Cognition

Infant Perception and Cognition
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780195366709
ISBN-13 : 0195366700
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Book Synopsis Infant Perception and Cognition by : Lisa M. Oakes

Download or read book Infant Perception and Cognition written by Lisa M. Oakes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marianella Casasola is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development at Cornell University, where she has been teaching since earning her doctorate in Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines aspects of infant spatial cognition, young children's acquisition of spatial language, and the interplay between language and cognition during the first two years of development.

The Mind's New Science

The Mind's New Science
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 450
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ISBN-10 : 9780786725144
ISBN-13 : 0786725141
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Book Synopsis The Mind's New Science by : Howard E Gardner

Download or read book The Mind's New Science written by Howard E Gardner and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale history of cognitive science, this work addresses a central issue: What is the nature of knowledge?