Ebook: Cognition, Semantics and Philosophy: Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Cognitive Science
- Tags: Philosophy, Semantics, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
- Series: Philosophical Studies Series 52
- Year: 1992
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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THE PLACE OF PHILOSOPHY IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE During the last few years, many books have been published and many meetings have been held on Cognitive Science. A cursory review of their contents shows such a diversity of topics and approaches that one might well infer that there are no genuine criteria for classifying a paper or a lecture as a contribution to Cognitive Science. It is as though the only criterion is to have appeared in a book or in the programme of a meeting or title we can find the expression " . . . Cognitive Science" in whose name or something like that. Perhaps this situation is due to the (relative) youth of the field, which is seeking its own identity, still involved in a process of formation and consolidation within the scientific community; but there are actually deep disagreements about how a science of the mind should be worked out, including how to understand its own subject, that is, "the mind. "While for some the term makes reference to a set of phenomena impossible to grasp by any scientific approach, for others "the mind" would be a sort of myth, and the mental terms await elimination by other more handy and empirically tractable terms.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Animal Cognition and Human Cognition: A Necessary Dialogue....Pages 1-21
User Modelling in Knowledge-Based Systems....Pages 23-46
Changing Beliefs Rationally: Some Puzzles....Pages 47-73
On the Representation of Linguistic Information....Pages 75-105
Modelling Memory for Models....Pages 107-127
On The Study of Linguistic Performance....Pages 129-178
Partiality and Coherence in Concept Combination....Pages 179-207
The Labyrinth of Attitude Reports....Pages 209-233
Aunty’s Own Argument for the Language of Thought....Pages 235-271
Cognitive Science and Semantic Representations....Pages 273-292
Anchoring Conceptual Content: Scenarios and Perception....Pages 293-322
Back Matter....Pages 323-324
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Animal Cognition and Human Cognition: A Necessary Dialogue....Pages 1-21
User Modelling in Knowledge-Based Systems....Pages 23-46
Changing Beliefs Rationally: Some Puzzles....Pages 47-73
On the Representation of Linguistic Information....Pages 75-105
Modelling Memory for Models....Pages 107-127
On The Study of Linguistic Performance....Pages 129-178
Partiality and Coherence in Concept Combination....Pages 179-207
The Labyrinth of Attitude Reports....Pages 209-233
Aunty’s Own Argument for the Language of Thought....Pages 235-271
Cognitive Science and Semantic Representations....Pages 273-292
Anchoring Conceptual Content: Scenarios and Perception....Pages 293-322
Back Matter....Pages 323-324
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