Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Categories, Consciousness, and Reasoning: Proceeding of the Second International Colloquium on Cognitive Science

ISBN-13: 9789048147106 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 270 str.

A. Clark; J. Ezquerro; Jesus M. Larrazabal

Opis

This book presents the Proceedings of the Second International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, held at San Sebastian in May, 1991, to discuss from an interdisciplinary point of view topics which are at the intersection of philosophy and cognitive science. With a total of eleven papers from leading scholars in the field, the volume provides many different theoretical approaches to the study of Categories, Consciousness and Reasoning. The book is addressed to researchers, specialists, advanced students and scholars in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind, psychology, semantics, logic and artificial intelligence.

Spis treści

Introduction. 1. Externalism and Experience; M. Davies. 2. Conceptual Analysis and the Connectionist Account of Concepts; W. Ramsey. 3. Of Norms and Neurons; A. Clark. 4. Skepticism, Lucid Content and the Metamental Loop; K. Lehrer. 5. Evading the Slingshot; J. Perry. 6. Reference Without Sense: An Examination of Putnam's Semantic Theory; A.G. Suárez. 7. Attitudes, Content and Identity: A Dynamic View; J.J. Acero. 8. Conceptual Spaces as a Basis for Cognitive Semantics; P. Gärdenfors. 9. The Cognitive Impact of Diagrams; K. Stenning. 10. What's Happening? Elements of Commonsense Causation; K. Konolige. 11. Principles of Uncertain Reasoning; J. Pais, A. Vencovska. Authors' Index. Subject Index.