Ebook: Epistemology and Cognition
- Genre: Other Social Sciences // Philosophy
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Interdisciplinary Studies, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
- Series: Studies in Cognitive Systems 6
- Year: 1991
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interest from classical problems in the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology through issues in cognitive psychology and sociobiology (concerning the mental powers of other species) to ideas related to artificial intelligence and computer science. While primary emphasis will be placed upon theoretical, conceptual, and epistemological aspects of these problems and domains, empirical, experimen tal, and methodological studies will also appear from time to time. The present volume reflects the kind of insights that can be obtained when research workers in philosophy, artificial intelligence, and computer science explore problems of common concern. The issues here tend to fall into two broad but varied sets, namely: those concerned with content and concepts, on the one hand, and those concerned with semantics and epistemology, on the other. The collection begins with a prologue that focuses upon the relations between connectionism and alternative conceptions of nativism and ends with an epilogue that examines the significance of alternative conceptions of the Frame Problem for artificial intelligence. Because these papers are rich and diverse, they ought to appeal to a wide and heterogeneous audience. J.H.F.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Connectionism and Three Levels of Nativism....Pages 3-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Explanation and the Language of Thought....Pages 35-61
Conceptual Dependency as the Language of Thought....Pages 63-84
Functionalism and Inverted Spectra....Pages 85-100
Concepts and Conceptual Change....Pages 101-120
Beyond the Exclusively Propositional Era....Pages 121-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Can Semantics Be Syntactic?....Pages 155-174
Form and Content in Semantics....Pages 175-197
Knowledge and the Regularity Theory of Information....Pages 199-222
Melancholic Epistemology....Pages 223-246
Human Understanding....Pages 247-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Framing the Frame Problem....Pages 267-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-303
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Connectionism and Three Levels of Nativism....Pages 3-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Explanation and the Language of Thought....Pages 35-61
Conceptual Dependency as the Language of Thought....Pages 63-84
Functionalism and Inverted Spectra....Pages 85-100
Concepts and Conceptual Change....Pages 101-120
Beyond the Exclusively Propositional Era....Pages 121-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Can Semantics Be Syntactic?....Pages 155-174
Form and Content in Semantics....Pages 175-197
Knowledge and the Regularity Theory of Information....Pages 199-222
Melancholic Epistemology....Pages 223-246
Human Understanding....Pages 247-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Framing the Frame Problem....Pages 267-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-303
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