Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science

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Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (2006)
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This volume introduces central issues in cognitive science by means of debates on key questions. The debates are written by renowned experts in the field. The debates cover the middle ground as well as the extremes Addresses topics such as the amount of innate knowledge, bounded rationality and the role of perception in action. Provides valuable overview of the field in a clear and easily comprehensible form

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BF311.C659 2006

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9781405113052   9781405113045   9780470797259   1405113057   1405113049

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Can cognition be factorized into internal and external components?Timothy Williamson
Is the aim of perception to provide accurate representations? A case for the 'no' side.Christopher D. Viger
Is the human mind massively modular?Richard Samuels
Is the human mind massively modular?R. Samuels
Locating meaning in the mind (where it belongs).Ray S. Jackendoff
Phenomena and mechanisms: Putting the symbolic, connectionist, and dynamical systems debate in broader perspective.Adele A. Abrahamsen & William P. Bechtel
The case for linguistic nativism.Robert J. Matthews
The case for massively modular models of mind.Peter Carruthers
The case for massively modular models of mind.P. Carruthers
Is the mind really modular?  (pages 22--36)Jesse J. Prinz
Irrational nativist exuberance.  (pages 59--80)Barbara C. Scholz & Geoffrey K. Pullum
On the innateness of language.  (pages 97--112)James A. McGilvray
Bounded and Rational.  (pages 115--133)Gigerenzer Gerd
Bounded rationality, epistemic externalism and the Enlightenment picture of cognitive virtue.  (pages 134--144)D. Matheson
Cognition needs syntax but not rules.  (pages 147--158)Terence E. Horgan & John L. Tienson
Consciousness and Qualia Can Be Reduced.  (pages 189-201)William G. Lycan
Consciousness and Qualia Cannot Be Reduced.  (pages 202-216)Brie Gertler
The intentional inexistence of language — but not cars.  (pages 237-55)Georges Rey
Is the aim of perception to provide accurate representations?  (pages 259-274)Kirk A. Ludwig
Can cognition be factorized into internal and external components?  (pages 291-306)Timothy Williamson
The internal and external components of cognition.  (pages 307-325)Ralph Wedgwood

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