Title: Minds, brains, and computers : the foundations of cognitive science : an anthology /
Authors: Cummins, Robert, 1944-; Cummins, Denise D.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Thinking; Cognitive Science; Cognition; Cognitive science; Cognition.; Thought and thinking
Abstract: This work offers a selection of seminal papers on the foundations of cognitive science, from leading figures in artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy and cognitive psychology. Each category includes papers that show the conception in question, illustrate, interpret or criticise it.
Contents: Pt. I. The Mind as Computer. 1. A History of Thinking / D. Dellarosa Cummins. 2. Minds and Machines / H. Putnam. 3. Semantic Engines: An Introduction to Mind Design / J. Haugeland. 4. The language of Thought: First Approximations / J. A. Fodor. 5. Vision / D. Marr. 6. GPS, a Program that Simulates Human Thought / A. Newell and H. A. Simon. 7. A Procedural Model of Language Understanding / T. Winograd. 8. A General Learning Theory and its Application to Schema Abstraction / J. R. Anderson, P. J. Kline and C. M. Beasley, Jr. 9. Minds, Brains, and Programs / J. R. Searle. 10. Computing Machinery and Intelligence / A. M. Turing --^