Mental States : Volume 1: Evolution, function, nature.

Mental States : Volume 1: Evolution, function, nature.

Collecting the work of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, archaeologists, artificial intelligence researchers and philosophers this volume presents a richly varied picture of the nature and function of mental states. Starting from questions about the cognitive capacities of the early hominin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schalley, Andrea C.
Other Authors: Khlentzos, Drew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007.
Subjects:
Psycholinguistics.
Linguistics.
psycholinguistics.
linguistics.
Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
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Table of Contents:
  • Mental States. Volume 1: Evolution, function, nature; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; List of contributors; 1. Mental states; 2. Lithic design space modelling and cognition in Homo floresiensis; 3. "As large as you need and as small as you can"; 4. Homo on Flores; 5. Evolving artificial minds and brains; 6. Multi-agent communication, planning, and collaboration based on perceptions, conceptions, and simulations; 7. The modal-logical interpretation of the causation of bodily actions; 8. Do we access object manipulabilitywhile we categorize?
  • 9. Speaking without the cerebellum10. Ontologies as a cue for the metaphorical meaning of technical concepts; 11. Anti-realist assumptions and challenges inphilosophy of mind; 12. Vagueness, supertranslatability, and conceptual schemes; 13. Visual representation in a naturalcommunication system; 14. Hidden units in child language; Name index; Subject index; Table of contents of volume 2; The Studies in Language Companion Series.

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