Ebook: Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Categories, Consciousness, and Reasoning: Proceeding of the Second International Colloquium on Cognitive Science

PHILOSOPHY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE: CATEGORIES, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND REASONING The individual man, since his separate existence is manifested only by ignorance and error, so far as he is anything apart from his fellows, and from what he and they are to be, is only a negation. Peirce, Some Consequences of Four Incapacities. 1868. For the second time the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science gathered at San Sebastian from May, 7-11, 1991 to discuss the following main topics: Knowledge of Categories Consciousness Reasoning and Interpretation Evolution, Biology, and Mind It is not an easy task to introduce in a few words the content of this volume. We have collected eleven invited papers presented at the Colloquium, which means the substantial part of it. Unfortunately, it has not been possible to include all the invited lectures of the meeting. Before sketching and showing the relevance of each paper, let us explain the reasons for having adopted the decision to organize each two years an international colloquium on Cognitive Science at Donostia (San Sebastian). First of all, Cognitive Science is a very active research area in the world, linking multidisciplinary efforts coming mostly from psychology, artificial intelligence, theoretical linguistics and neurobiology, and using more and more formal tools. We think that this new discipline lacks solid foundations, and in this sense philosophy, particularly knowledge theory, and logic must be called for.

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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.

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Externalism and Experience....Pages 1-33
Conceptual Analysis and the Connectionist Account of Concepts....Pages 35-57
Of Norms and Neurons....Pages 59-71
Skepticism, Lucid Content and the Metamental Loop....Pages 73-93
Evading The Slingshot....Pages 95-114
Reference Without Sense: An Examination of Putnam’s Semantic Theory....Pages 115-132
Attitudes, Content and Identity: A Dynamic View....Pages 135-158
Conceptual Spaces as a Basis for Cognitive Semantics....Pages 159-180
The Cognitive Impact of Diagrams....Pages 181-196
What’s Happening? Elements of Commonsense Causation....Pages 197-220
Principles of Uncertain Reasoning....Pages 221-259
Back Matter....Pages 261-270

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Externalism and Experience....Pages 1-33
Conceptual Analysis and the Connectionist Account of Concepts....Pages 35-57
Of Norms and Neurons....Pages 59-71
Skepticism, Lucid Content and the Metamental Loop....Pages 73-93
Evading The Slingshot....Pages 95-114
Reference Without Sense: An Examination of Putnam’s Semantic Theory....Pages 115-132
Attitudes, Content and Identity: A Dynamic View....Pages 135-158
Conceptual Spaces as a Basis for Cognitive Semantics....Pages 159-180
The Cognitive Impact of Diagrams....Pages 181-196
What’s Happening? Elements of Commonsense Causation....Pages 197-220
Principles of Uncertain Reasoning....Pages 221-259
Back Matter....Pages 261-270
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