The search for mind
Subtitle: a new foundation for cognitive science
By: Seán Ó Nualláin.
Publisher: Intellect
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bristol, UK; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Cognitive science.; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.; Philosophy of mind.
Description: "The degree to which cognitive science as currently conceived can aspire to be the science of mind is a difficult issue. Proposing anintegrated approach to cognitive science, this revised edition of The Search For Mind has been updated to meet the newest developments of this rapidly changing field. The first part of this book constitutes clear introductions to the disciplines that traditionally are seen to constitute cognitive science (namely: Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Ethnology). The second section focuses on the nature of symbol systems, considered generically, and goes on to detail a theory of consciousness and selfhood. The two strands are woven together into a new theory of cognition and its development. O Nuallain concludes that a science that fully attempts to treat cognition must remain au fait with the findings from all other approaches to the study of mind, from the purely behaviorist to the purely experiential."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-274) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part 1 - The Constituent Disciplines of Cognitive Science; title: Philosophical Epistemology; title: Glossary; title: 1.0 What is Philosophical Epistemology?; title: 1.1 The reduced history of Philosophy Part I - The Classical Age; title: 1.2 Mind and World - The problem of objectivity; title: 1.3 The reduced history of Philosophy Part II - The twentieth century; title: 1.4 The philosophy of Cognitive Science; title: 1.5 Mind in Philosophy: summary; title: 1.6 The Nolanian Framework (so far); title: Psychology; title: 2.0 Why is Psychology so difficult?; title: 2.1 A brief history of Experimental Psychology; title: 2.2 Methodologies in Psychology; title: 2.3 Perception; title: 2.4 Memory; title: 2.5 Mind in Psychology; title: Linguistics; title: 3.0 Introduction; title: 3.1 Why Linguistics?; title: 3.2 Computation and Linguistics; title: 3.3 The main grammatical theories; title: 3.4 Language development and linguistics; title: 3.5 Toward a definition of context; title: 3.6 The multifarious uses of Language; title: 3.7 Linguistics and Computational Linguistics; title: 3.8 Language and other symbol systems; title: 3.9 On the notion of context; title: 3.10 Mind in Linguistics: summary; title: Neuroscience; title: 4.0 The constituent disciplines of Neuroscience; title: 4.1 The methodology of Neuroscience; title: 4.2 Gross Neuroanatomy; title: 4.3 Some relevant findings; title: 4.4 Connectionism (PDP); title: 4.5 The victory of Neuroscience?; title: 4.6 Mind in Neuroscience: summary; title: Artificial Intelligence; title: 5.0 Introduction; title: 5.1 Al and Cognitive Science; title: 5.2 Skeptics and their techniques; title: 5.3 Al as Computer Science; title: 5.4 Al as software; title: 5.5 The current methodological debate; title: 5.6 Context, syntax and semantics; title: 5.7 Mind in Al; title: 5.8 Texts on Al; title: Etholoqy and Ethnoscience; title: 6.1 Etology; title: 6.2 Ethnoscience; title: 6.3 Mind in Ethology arid Ethnoscience; title: Part II - A New Foundation for Cognitive Science; title: - Symbol Systems; title: 7.1 Characteristics of symbol systems; title: 7.2 Context and the layers of symbol systems; title: 7.3 Mind and symbol systems; title: Consciousness and Selfhood; title: 8.0 Introduction; title: 8.1 Cognitive views; title: 8.2 What is at stake?; title: 8.3 Consciousness as treated in Philosophy; title: 8.4 The Development of Selfhood; title: 8.5 The minimal requirements for this theory; title: 8.6 Self as a filter; title: 8.7 Self and motivation; title: 8.8 Conclusions; title: 8.9 Recent developments; title: Cognitive Science and the Search for Mind; title: 9.1 Introduction; title: 9.2 Review; title: 9.3 A Theory of Mind anyone?; title: 9.4 Foundational considerations; title: 9.5 Coda: the Nolanian Framework.