Metarepresentations
Subtitle: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science, 10)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 14, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780195141153
First sentence: Cognitive systems are characterized by their ability to construct and process mental representations.
Description: This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous among human beings, whenever we think or talk about mental states or linguistic acts, or theorize about the mind or language. This volume collects previously unpublished studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors, including Daniel Dennett, Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.