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Philosophy of Cognitive Science

2009
Cognitive science, which appears as an articulated group of research programs whose aim is to constitute a science of the mind, raises a number of issues from the point of view of philosophy of science. This chapter will sample the field by dealing with two main topics.
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The Cognitive Sciences

1984
Some dictionaries still define cognition as the power or faculty of apprehending and knowing, a usage that harks back to the days when philosophers attributed all mental phenomena to one of three types od mental faculties: faculties of knowing or conotion, faculties of willing or cognition or conition, and faculties of feeling or affection (Hilgrd ...
George A. Miller, Michael S. Gazzaniga
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Information Science as a Cognitive Science

1994
The aims of this contribution are to outline the scientific landscape in which information science operates and to discuss the discipline within the framework of the cognitive sciences.
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Embodiment and Cognitive Science

, 2005
Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Bodies and persons 3. Perception and action 4. Concepts 5. Imagery, memory, and reasoning 6. Language and communication 7. Cognitive development 8. Emotion and consciousness 9. Conclusion.
R. Gibbs
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Cognitive Science

2015
Abstract Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence, embracing psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, and computer modeling (artificial intelligence). After a review of the history of the field and its contributing disciplines, this chapter examines some of the main theoretical and
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Towards a Cognitive Science of the Human: Cross-Cultural Approaches and Their Urgency

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020
H. Clark Barrett
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The cognitive science of fiction

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2012
AbstractFiction might be dismissed as observations that lack reliability and validity, but this would be a misunderstanding. Works of fiction are simulations that run on minds. They were the first kinds of simulation. All art has a metaphorical quality: a painting can be both pigments on canvas and a person.
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Innateness in cognitive science

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2004
Innateness is one of the central concepts of cognitive science; but it is also a source of considerable confusion. In this article, I survey recent attempts to understand the notion of innateness as it figures in cognitive science and indicate which is likely to prove most fruitful.
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Cognitive science and behaviourism

British Journal of Psychology, 1985
In this paper it is argued that cognitive scientists, claiming the support of brain science and computer simulation, have revived a traditional view that behaviour is initiated by an internal, autonomous mind. In doing so, they have (1) misused the metaphor of storage and retrieval, (2) given neurology a misleading assignment, (3) frequently replaced ...
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Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness

, 1985
M. Ford, P. Johnson-Laird
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