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Author:   Robert Cummins (University of Arizona) ,  Denise D. Cummins (University of California at Davis)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.989kg
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9781557868770

ISBN 10:   1557868778
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   25 November 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Preface viii Part I The Mind as Computer 1 Introduction 3 1. A History of Thinking 8 D. Dellarosa Cummins 2. Minds and Machines20 H. Putnam 3. Semantic Engines: An Introduction to Mind Design 34 J. Haugeland 4. The Language of Thought: First Approximations 51 J. A. Fodor 5. Vision 69 D. Marr 6. GPS, A Program that Simulates Human Thought 84 A. Newell and H. Simon 7. A Procedural Model of Language Understanding 95 T. Winograd 8. A General Learning Theory and its Application to Schema Abstraction 114 J. R. Anderson and P. J. Kline, and C. M. Beasley, Jr 9. Minds, Brains, and Programs 140 J. R. Searle 10. Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence 153 M. Turing Part II The Mind as Neural Network 169 Introduction 171 11. The Perceptron A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization in the Brian 179 F. Rosenblatt 12. Cognitive Activity in Artificial Neural Networks 198 P. M. Churchland 13. Cooperative Computation of Stereo Disparity 217 D. Marr and T. Poggio 14. On Learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs 225 D. E. Rumelhart and J. L. McClelland 15. Parallel Networks that Learn to Pronounce English Text 259 T. J. Sejnowski and C. R. Rosenberg 16. Connectionism and the Problem of Systematicity Why Smolensky's Solution Won't Work 273 J. A. Fodor and B. P. McLaughlin 17. Connectionism, Constituency, and the Language of Thought 286 P. Smolensky 18. Rules and Connections in Human Language 307 S. Pinker and A. Prince Part III The Mind as Brain 319 Introduction 321 19. The Organization of Behavior 323 D. O. Hebb 20. In Search of the Engram 333 K. Lashley 21. A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity 351 W. S. McCulloch and W. H. Pitts 22. Is Consciousness a Brain Process? 361 U. T. Place 23. The Computational Brain: Anatomical and Physiological Techniques 367 P. S. Churchland and T. J. Sejnowski 24. What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain 382 J. Y. Lettvin, H. K. Maturana, W. S. McCulloch, and W. H. Pitts 25. Positron Emission Tomographic Studies of the Cortical Anatomy of Single-word Processing 397 S. E. Petersen, P. T. Fox, M. I. Posner, M. Minton, and M. E. Raichle 26. Computational Neuroscience 405 T. J. Sejnowski, C. Koch, and P. S. Churchland 27. Two Cortical Visual Systems 420 L. G. Ungerleider and M. Mishkin Part IV Special Topics 445 Introduction 447 28. Recent Contributions to the Theory of Innate Ideas 452 N. Chomsky 29. The 'Innateness Hypothesis' and the Explanatory Models in Linguistics 458 H. Putnam 30. Linguistics and Philosophy 464 N. Chomsky 31. Initial Knowledge Six Suggestions 484 E. Spelke 32. Précis of the Modularity of Mind 493 J. A. Fodor 33. Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes 500 P. M. Churchland 34. The Social Function of Intellect 513 N. Humphrey 35. Origins of Domain Specificity: The Evolution of Functional Organization 523 L. Cosmides and J. Tooby Index 544

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"This anthology features papers that are historically important to cognitive science, giving about equal billing to symbolic, connectionist, and neuroscience viewpoints. Although the papers convey some key findings, their strong point is clarifying assumptions that underlie these three perspectives. Students will find this a valuable sourcebook for the major research traditions." Lance Rips, Northwestern University

This anthology features papers that are historically important to cognitive science, giving about equal billing to symbolic, connectionist, and neuroscience viewpoints. Although the papers convey some key findings, their strong point is clarifying assumptions that underlie these three perspectives. Students will find this a valuable sourcebook for the major research traditions. Lance Rips, Northwestern University

Author Information

Robert Cummins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Nature of Psychological Explanation (1983), Meaning and Mental Representation (1987), and Representations, Targets and Attitudes (1996), as well as many articles and several edited volumes. He specializes in the foundations of cognitive science and the nature of mental representation. Denise D. Cummins is Associate Research Professor of Social Sciences at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Other Side of Psychology (1995), The Evolution of Mind (ed. with Colin Allen), and Human Reasoning: an Evolutionary Perspective as well as numerous articles and reviews. She specializes in higher cognition from an evolutionary perspective.

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