Mind Readings: Introductory Selections on Cognitive Science / Edition 1

by Paul Thagard

Overview

Mind Readings is a collection of accessible readings on some of the most important topics in cognitive science. Although anyone interested in the interdisciplinary study of mind will find the selections well worth reading, they work particularly well with Paul Thagard's textbook Mind: An Introduction Cognitive Science, and provide further discussion on the major topics discussed in that book. The first eight chapters present approaches to cognitive science from the perspective that thinking consists of computational procedures on mental representations. The remaining five chapters discuss challenges to the computational-representational understanding of mind.

Contributors
John R. Anderson, Ruth M.J. Byrne, E.H. Durfee, Chris Eliasmith, Owen Flanagan, Dedre Gentner, Janice Glasgow, Philip N. Johnson-Laird, Alan Mackworth, Arthur B. Markman, Douglas L. Medin, Keith Oatley, Dimitri Papadias, Steven Pinker, David E. Rumelhart, Herbert A. Simon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262700672
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	04/09/1998
Series:	A Bradford Book
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Lexile:	1340L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of The Cognitive Science of Science (MIT Press, 2012) and many other books.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Sources
Guide for the Reader
1 What Is an "EXplanation" of Behavior?
Herbert A. Simon
2 The Cognitive Science of Deduction
Philip N. JohnsonLaird and Ruth M. J. Byrne
3 Production Systems and the ACTR Theory
John R. Anderson
4 Rules of Language
Steven Pinker
5 Concepts and Conceptual Structure
Douglas L. Medin
6 Structure Mapping in Analogy and Similarity
Dedre Gentner and Arthur B. Markman
7 Computational Imagery
Janice Glasgow and Dimitri Papadias
8 The Architecture of Mind: A Connectionist Approach
David E. Rumelhart
9 The Structure of Emotions
Keith Oatley
10 A Unified Theory of Consciousness?
Owen Flanagan
11 On Seeing Robots
Alan Mackworth
12 What Your Computer Really Needs to Know, You Learned
in Kindergarten
E. H. Durfee
13 The Third Contender: A Critical EXamination of the
Synamicist Theory of Cognition
Chris Eliasmith
Notes on the Contributors
IndeX

What People are Saying About This

Keith J. Holyoak

Mind Readings is an engaging selection of core readings in cognitive science, systematically, organized to make the links between them clear. The papers succeed in highlighting the major issues and controversies in the field while at the same time being accessible to beginning students.

George Graham

Thagard has chosen readings wisely, not just to complement his textbook, but as a short stand-alone anthology. The collection succeeds admirably.

Endorsement

Thagard has chosen readings wisely, not just to complement his textbook, but as a short stand-alone anthology. The collection succeeds admirably.

—George Graham, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

From the Publisher

Mind Readings is an engaging selection of core readings in cognitive science, systematically, organized to make the links between them clear. The papers succeed in highlighting the major issues and controversies in the field while at the same time being accessible to beginning students.

—Keith J. Holyoak, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

Thagard has chosen readings wisely, not just to complement his textbook, but as a short stand-alone anthology. The collection succeeds admirably.

—George Graham, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Editorial Reviews

"Thagard has chosen readings wisely, not just to complement his textbook, but as a short stand-alone anthology. The collection succeeds admirably."--George Graham, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

& quot; Thagard has chosen readings wisely, not just to complement his textbook, but as a short stand-alone anthology. The collection succeeds admirably.& quot; -- George Graham, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

" Thagard has chosen readings wisely, not just to complement his textbook, but as a short stand-alone anthology. The collection succeeds admirably." -- George Graham, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

-- George Graham, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

From the Publisher