Mind Readings: Introductory Selections on Cognitive SciencePaul Thagard 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 |
Contents
The Cognitive Science of Deduction | 29 |
Production Systems and the ACTR Theory | 59 |
Rules of Language | 77 |
Concepts and Conceptual Structure | 93 |
Structure Mapping in Analogy and Similarity | 127 |
Computational Imagery | 157 |
A Connectionist Approach | 207 |
The Structure of Emotions | 239 |
A Unified Theory of Consciousness? | 259 |
On Seeing Robots | 271 |
What Your Computer Really Needs to Know You Learned | 287 |
A Critical Examination of | 303 |
Notes on the Contributors | 335 |
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