Modelling the Mind

by K. A. Mohyeldin Said, W. H. Newton-Smith, R. Viale, K. V. Wilkes

Overview

This collection by a distinguished group of philosophers, psychologists, and physiologists reflects an interdisciplinary approach to the central question of cognitive science: how do we model the mind? Among the topics explored are the relationships (theoretical, reductive, and explanatory) between philosophy, psychology, computer science, and physiology; what should be asked of models in science generally, and in cognitive science in particular; whether theoretical models must make essential reference to objects in the environment; whether there are human competences that are resistant, in principle, to modelling; whether simulated thinking and intentionality are really thinking and intentionality; how semantics can be generated from syntactics; the meaning of the terms "representations" and "modelling;" whether the nature of the "hardware" matters; and whether computer models of humans are "dehumanizing." Contributors include Donald Davidson, Daniel C. Dennett, Margaret A. Boden, Adam Morton, Dennis Noble, T. Poggio, Colin Blakemore, K.V. Wilkes, P.N. Johnson-Laird, and Jonathan St. B.T. Evans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198249733
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/18/1990
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Oxford University

Balliol College, Oxford

Universita Luigi Bocconi, Milan

St Hilda's College, Oxford

Table of Contents

	Note on the Contributors	viii
1.	Turing's Test	1
2.	Representation and Interpretation	13
3.	Semantics and Subroutines	27
4.	The Myth of Original Intentionality	43
5.	Modelling the Mind	63
6.	Computer Models of Mind: Are they Socially Pernicious?	83
7.	Biological Explanation and Intentional Behaviour	97
8.	A Mechanistic Approach to Perception and the Human Mind	113
9.	Vision: The 'Other' Face of AI	139
10.	Human Thinking and Mental Models	155
11.	Deductive Reasoning in Human Information Processing	171
	Collected References	203
	Index of Names	215

Editorial Reviews

"The book, consisting of essays by five philosophers and five cognitive scientists, deals with various interesting . . . topics in cognitive science." —Contemporary Psychology

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