MINDS BRAINS COMPS COG SCI - Softcover

M. Harnish, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631212604 ISBN 13: 9780631212607

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Synopsis

Minds, Brains, Computers serves as both an historical and interdisciplinary introduction to the foundations of cognitive science.

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From the Back Cover:

Minds, Brains, Computers serves as both an historical and interdisciplinary introduction to the foundations of cognitive science.

Tracing the history of central concepts from the nineteenth century to the present, this study surveys the significant contributions of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computer science. The volume also investigates the theory of mind from two contrasting approaches: the digital computer vs. neural network models.

Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the ideal text for introductory courses in cognitive science as well as an excellent supplementary text for courses in philosophy of mind.

About the Author:

Robert M. Harnish is Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, and Research Scientist in Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona. He is co-author, with Adrian Akmajian, of Linguistics (Fifth Edition, 2000), and, with Kent Bach, of Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts (1979) his is also editor of Basic Topics in the Philosophy of Language (1994), and co-editor of Neural Connections, Mental Computation (1989), and The Representation of Knowledge and Belief (1986).

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0631212604
• ISBN 13: 9780631212607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 468