{"product_id":"minds-brains-and-computers-isbn-9781557868770","title":"Minds, Brains, and Computers","description":"\u003ci\u003eMinds, Brains, and Computers\u003c\/i\u003e presents a vital resource -- the most comprehensive interdisciplinary selection of seminal papers in the foundations of cognitive science, from leading figures in artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. \u003cp\u003ePreface viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Mind as Computer 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. A History of Thinking 8\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eD. Dellarosa Cummins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Minds and Machines20\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e H. Putnam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Semantic Engines: An Introduction to Mind Design 34\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. Haugeland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Language of Thought: First Approximations 51\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. A. Fodor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Vision 69\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eD. Marr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. GPS, A Program that Simulates Human Thought 84\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA. Newell and H. Simon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. A Procedural Model of Language Understanding 95\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eT. Winograd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. A General Learning Theory and its Application to Schema Abstraction 114\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. R. Anderson and P. J. Kline, and C. M. Beasley, Jr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Minds, Brains, and Programs 140\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. R. Searle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence 153\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eM. Turing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Mind as Neural Network 169\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Perceptron A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization in the Brian 179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eF. Rosenblatt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Cognitive Activity in Artificial Neural Networks 198\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eP. M. Churchland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Cooperative Computation of Stereo Disparity 217\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eD. Marr and T. Poggio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. On Learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs 225\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eD. E. Rumelhart and J. L. McClelland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Parallel Networks that Learn to Pronounce English Text 259\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eT. J. Sejnowski and C. R. Rosenberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Connectionism and the Problem of Systematicity Why Smolensky's Solution Won't Work 273\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. A. Fodor and B. P. McLaughlin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Connectionism, Constituency, and the Language of Thought 286\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eP. Smolensky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Rules and Connections in Human Language 307\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eS. Pinker and A. Prince\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III The Mind as Brain 319\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. The Organization of Behavior 323\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eD. O. Hebb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. In Search of the Engram 333\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eK. Lashley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity 351\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eW. S. McCulloch and W. H. Pitts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Is Consciousness a Brain Process? 361\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eU. T. Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. The Computational Brain: Anatomical and Physiological Techniques 367\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eP. S. Churchland and T. J. Sejnowski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain 382\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. Y. Lettvin, H. K. Maturana, W. S. McCulloch, and W. H. Pitts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Positron Emission Tomographic Studies of the Cortical Anatomy of Single-word Processing 397\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eS. E. Petersen, P. T. \u003c\/i\u003eFox, M. I. Posner, M. Minton, and M. E. Raichle\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. Computational Neuroscience 405\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eT. J. Sejnowski, C. Koch, and P. S. Churchland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. Two Cortical Visual Systems 420\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eL. G. Ungerleider and M. Mishkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Special Topics 445\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction 447\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. Recent Contributions to the Theory of Innate Ideas 452\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eN. Chomsky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. The 'Innateness Hypothesis' and the Explanatory Models in Linguistics 458\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eH. Putnam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. Linguistics and Philosophy 464\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eN. Chomsky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. Initial Knowledge Six Suggestions 484\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eE. Spelke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Précis of the Modularity of Mind 493\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. A. Fodor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes 500\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eP. M. Churchland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. The Social Function of Intellect 513\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eN. Humphrey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Origins of Domain Specificity: The Evolution of Functional Organization 523\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eL. Cosmides and J. Tooby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 544\u003c\/p\u003e \"This anthology features papers that are historically important to cognitive science, giving about equal billing to symbolic, connectionist, and neuroscience viewpoints. Although the papers convey some key findings, their strong point is clarifying assumptions that underlie these three perspectives. Students will find this a valuable sourcebook for the major research traditions.\" \u003cb\u003eLance Rips,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eNorthwestern University\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRobert Cummins\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Psychological Explanation\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), \u003ci\u003eMeaning and Mental Representation\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), and \u003ci\u003eRepresentations, Targets and Attitudes\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), as well as many articles and several edited volumes. He specializes in the foundations of cognitive science and the nature of mental representation. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDenise D. Cummins\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Research Professor of Social Sciences at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side of Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eThe Evolution of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (ed. with Colin Allen), and \u003ci\u003eHuman Reasoning: an Evolutionary Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e as well as numerous articles and reviews. She specializes in higher cognition from an evolutionary perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e  This book presents a vital resource -- a comprehensive interdisciplinary selection of seminal papers in the foundations of cognitive science, from leading figures in artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe collection is organized around three broad conceptions of the mind: the mind as computer program, the mind as a neural network, and the mind as brain. Each category includes papers that articulate the conception in question, papers that illustrate it, papers that interpret or criticize it, and papers that provide necessary technical background.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinally, there is a section of classic papers on four broad questions which have shaped contemporary thinking in cognitive science:\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is innate in the mind?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs the mind a seamless whole, or is it made up of independent modules that differ significantly from each other?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre our ordinary mental concepts, such as belief, desire, and intention, a good starting place for a scientific understanding of the mind, or are they artifacts of a pre-scientific conception that should be discarded?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow should biology generally, and the evolution of animals in particular, constrain our theories about mental phenomena?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaken together, these papers give a sense of the history of the field as well as its contents by presenting the argumnets, models, data, and experiments that most crucially influence theory and practice in cognitive science.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989629714661,"sku":"NP9781557868770","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781557868770.jpg?v=1761784877","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/minds-brains-and-computers-isbn-9781557868770","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}