Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science: 07 (Contemporary Debates in Philosophy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405113049 ISBN 13: 9781405113045

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

This volume introduces central issues in cognitive science by means of debates on key questions.

• The debates are written by renowned experts in the field.
  
• The debates cover the middle ground as well as the extremes
  
• Addresses topics such as the amount of innate knowledge, bounded rationality and the role of perception in action.
  
• Provides valuable overview of the field in a clear and easily comprehensible form.

About this title

About the Author

Robert J. Stainton is Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He has published some 40 articles on various topics in linguistics and philosophy, and has authored or edited eight previous books, including Philosophical Perspectives on Language (1996), Knowledge and Mind (2000) and is co-editor of Philosophy and Linguistics (1999).

Renowned experts in the field contribute to the debates from different perspectives, covering the middle ground as well as the extremes. They address such topics as the degree of modularity of the mind, the amount of innate knowledge, whether human cognition is bounded, the role of perception in action, the place of external elements in mental states, and the importance of rules and representations for explaining systematicity.

The volume as a whole provides a valuable overview of the field in a clear and easily comprehensible form.

Renowned experts in the field contribute to the debates from different perspectives, covering the middle ground as well as the extremes. They address such topics as the degree of modularity of the mind, the amount of innate knowledge, whether human cognition is bounded, the role of perception in action, the place of external elements in mental states, and the importance of rules and representations for explaining systematicity.

The volume as a whole provides a valuable overview of the field in a clear and easily comprehensible form.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405113049
• ISBN 13: 9781405113045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Stainton Robert J.