Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science

Boden, Margaret

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9780199241446: Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science

ISBN 10: 0199241449 ISBN 13: 9780199241446

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2006

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The definitive history of cognitive science.

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Mind as Machine is instructive, thought-provocative, and interdisciplinary in its approach...One cannot deny the fact that Professor Margaret Boden is an excellent writer (Yves Laberge Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy)

Anyone will profit from the clarity in context that Boden provides. Her impressive learning is evident at every turn, everything is deeply understood and thought about, and almost everything important seems to have been read and incorporated, down to very recent and still forthcoming literature - this is not a history of things past but an overall account of the discipline as it stands now. (Vincent C. Muller, Minds and Machines)

the writing is clear and engaging throughout, so much so that it often sounds less like scientific prose than literature. (Roy Behrens, Leonardo OnLine)

a triumphant literary event among histories of cognitive science (Igor Aleksander, Journal of Consciousness Studies)

a monumental new history of cognitive science ... scholarly, readable, and even entertaining ... an invaluable resource ... At present it has no rival, and it is hard to imagine any other work that could so completely document the intellectual ferment of the past fifty years (Michael C. Corballis. Times Literary Supplement)

These volumes are thought provoking and open a doorway towards improved understanding of the patterns of science in the second half of the twentieth century. (Stephen T. Casper, Medical History)