Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science
Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science Books
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Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence, embracing psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. Paul Thagard’s accessible, concise, and integrated text presupposes no unique preparation in any of these fields.
Thagard systematically describes and evaluates the main computational theories of mental representation that have been advocated by cognitive scientists, including judgment, rules, concepts, analogies, images, and connections (neural networks). He considers the major challenges to the computational-representational view of mind and discusses emotions, consciousness, corporal and social environments, dynamical systems, and mathematical knowledge.
Teaching cognitive science is trying, Thagard observes, because students come to this multidisciplinary theme with widely different competencies, backgrounds, and interests. Mind solves this dilemma by making judgment comprehensible to psychology students, computer algorithms comprehensible to English students, and philosophical controversies comprehensible to computer science students. Each chapter concludes with helpful summaries, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading.
Mind is ideal for introductory courses on Cognitive Science, and is also helpful as a supplement to courses on cognitive psychology, educational psychology, philosophy of mind, and artificial intelligence.
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