Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Categories, Consciousness, and Reasoning
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Synopsis
This book presents the Proceedings of the Second International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, held at San Sebastian in May, 1991, to discuss from an interdisciplinary point of view topics which are at the intersection of philosophy and cognitive science. With a total of eleven papers from leading scholars in the field, the volume provides many different theoretical approaches to the study of Categories, Consciousness and Reasoning.
The book is addressed to researchers, specialists, advanced students and scholars in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind, psychology, semantics, logic and artificial intelligence.
Booknews
Comprises eleven invited papers drawn from the Second International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, held at San Sebastian (Donostia) in May 1991. In these contributions, a host of international cognitive scientists, philosophers, psychologists, semanticists, mathematicians, and scholars from the fields of logic and artificial intelligence address a range of topics including externalism and experience; conceptual analysis and the connectionist account of concepts; norms and neurons; skepticism, lucid content and the metamental loop; evading the slingshot; an examination of Putnam's semantic theory; attitudes, content, and identity; conceptual spaces as a basis for cognitive semantics; the cognitive impact of diagrams; elements of commonsense causation; and the principles of uncertain reasoning. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.