What is cognitive science?

What is cognitive science? / Barbara Von Eckardt.

In this richly detailed analysis, Barbara Von Eckardt lays the foundations for understanding what it means to be a cognitive scientist. She characterizes the basic assumptions that define the cognitive science approach and systematically sorts out a host of recent and the controversies surrounding t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Von Eckardt, Barbara
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1993.
©1993
Series:Bradford Book Ser.
Subjects:
Cognitive science.
Cognition.
cognition.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
Cognition
Cognitive science
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Some Preliminaries. 1.1. Research Frameworks. 1.2. An Example of Cognitive Science Research. 1.3. The Characterization in Brief
  • 2. The Domain and the Basic Questions. 2.1. The Identification Assumption. 2.2. The Property Assumptions. 2.3. The Grouping Assumption. 2.4. The Basic Questions
  • 3. The Computational Assumption. 3.1. The Computational Linking Assumption. 3.2. The Computational System Assumption. 3.3. Conventional Machines. 3.4. Connectionist Machines. 3.5. The Evolution of Cognitive Science
  • 4. Representation in General. 4.1. The Representational Linking Assumption. 4.2. Peirce's Triadic Analysis. 4.3. The Representation-Object Relation. 4.4. The Representation-Interpretant Relation. 4.5. The Representational System Assumption
  • 5. Mental Representation. 5.1. What Mental Representations Are Not. 5.2. The Representation Bearer. 5.3. The Semantics of Mental Representation
  • 6. Current Approaches to Content Determination. 6.1. Grounding Mental Content. 6.2. The Structural Isomorphism Approach. 6.3. The Functional Role Approach. 6.4. The Causal Historical Approach. 6.5. The Indicator Approach. 6.6. The Biological Function Approach
  • 7. Constraints on a Theory of Content Determination. 7.1. Naturalism. 7.2. The Descriptive Case against Internalism. 7.3. A Normative Case for Internalism. 7.4. Methodological Individualism
  • 8. Significance. 8.1. Peirce's View. 8.2. The Regress Problem in Cognitive Science. 8.3. An Inadequate Solution. 8.4. Cognitive Science's Solution
  • 9. The Methodological Assumptions. 9.1. The Explanatory Strategy of Cognitive Science. 9.2. The Study of Cognition. 9.3. The Role of Neuroscience. 9.4. Explanatory Ineliminability. Epilogue: Some Challenges for the Future
  • Appendix: Characterizing an Immature Science
  • A.1: The Logical Positivist Tradition
  • A.2: Kuhn's Notion of a Paradigm
  • A.3: Laudan's Notion of a Research Tradition.

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