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The Future of the Cognitive Revolution

The Future of the Cognitive Revolution


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The model of the mind developed during the twentieth century's so-called "cognitive revolution" - that the mind is analogous to computer software - has recently lost its once virtually unquestioned pre-eminence. Thus we are now faced with the question of whether it it possible to repair this model, or whether we need to reconceive it in fundamental terms and replace it with something different. In this book, 28 leading scholars from various areas of cognitive science present their latest judgments on the future course for this intellectual movement.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION: What is the Purported Discipline of Cognitive Science and Why Does It Need to Be Reassessed at the Present Moment? The Search for "Cognitive Glue"David Martel Johnson: PART ONE: Good Old-Fashioned Cognitive Science: Does It Have a Future?David Martel Johnson: 1: Noam Chomsky: Language and Cognition 2: Hilary Putnam: Functionalism: Cognitive Science or Science Fiction? 3: Stuart Shanker: Reassessing the Cognitive Revolution 4: Margaret Boden: Promise and Achievement in Cognitive Science 5: Carol Fleisher Feldman: Boden's Middle Way: Viable or Not? 6: Juan Pascual-Leone: Metasubjective Processes: The Missing Lingua Franca of Cognitive Science 7: Don Ross: Is Cognitive Science a Discipline? 8: Ellen Bialystok: Anatomy of a Revolution PART TWO: Cognitive Science and the Study of LanguageChristina Erneling: 9: Noam Chomsky: Language from an Internalist Perspective 10: Joseph Agassi: The Novelty of Chomsky's Theories 11: Christopher D. Green and John Vervaeke: But What Have You Done for Us Lately? Some Recent Perspectives on Linguistic Nativism PART THREE: Connectionism: A Non-Rule-Following Rival, or Supplement to the Traditional Approach?David Martel Johnson: 12: Andy Clark: From Text to Process: Connectionism's Contribution to the Future of Cognitive Science 13: William Bechtel: Embodied Connectionism 14: Sidney J. Segalowitz and Daniel Bernstein: Neural Networks and Neuroscience: What Are Connectionist Simulations Good for? 15: Itiel E. Dror and Marcelo Dascal: Can Wittgenstein Help Free the Mind from Rules? The Philosophical Foundations of Connectionism 16: Timothy van Gelder: The Dynamical Alternative PART FOUR: The Ecological Alternative: Knowledge as Sensitivity to Objectively Existing FactsDavid Martel Johnson: 17: Ulric Neisser: The Future of Cognitive Science: An Ecological Analysis 18: Edward Reed: The Cognitive Revolution from an Ecological Point of View PART FIVE: Challenges to Cognitive Science: The Cultural ApproachChristina Erneling: 19: Jerome Bruner: Will Cognitive Revolutions Ever Stop? 20: Jeff Coulter: Neural Cartesianism: Comments on the Epistemology of the Cognitive Sciences 21: Sören Stenlund: Language, Action, and Mind 22: John Shotter: Cognition as a Social Practice: From Computer Power to Word Power 23: Rom Harré: "Berkeleyan" Arguments and the Ontology of Cognitive Science PART SIX: Historical ApproachesChristina Erneling: 24: Merlin Donald: The Mind Considered from a Historical Perspective: Human Cognitive Phylogenesis and the Possibility of Continuing Cognitive Evolution 25: David Martel Johnson: Taking the Past Seriously: How History Shows That Eliminativists' Account of Folk Psychology Is Partly Right and Partly Wrong AFTERWORD: Cognitive Science and the Future of Psychology--Challenges and OpportunitiesChristina Erneling: Citation Index Subject Index

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"The 25 chapters and related introductions in The Future of the Cognitive Revolution provide one of the finest compilations of current issues and perspectives within cognitive science. . . . [It] is written in clear and accessible language intended for a wide audience. The editors, Johnson and Erneling, provide masterful introductions to book sections and a general Introduction and Afterword that help the reader to have an overview and navigate through the book. The book could be used in an upper level undergraduate course or a graduate seminar on cognition, or subsets of chapters could be easily incorporated into graduate seminars in related disciplines. I highly recommend this book for new entrants into cognitive science as well as for seasoned researchers. This book should not be ignored."--Contemporary Psychology "[T]he use of any formal language automatizes and standardizes human thinking. From that point of view, the computer is not a model or a partner for the human mind. It is only an invention that . . . supports human mental skills. If we assume that the chapters presented in parts four and five of The Future of the Cognitive Revolution are something that can influence the mainstream of cognitive science, then we can say that cognitive revolution has a future. This future is the realization that culture together with its psychophysical products . . . constitute the environment of individual minds, that we cannot separate human thought from human action in a particular environment: 'All action involves some amount of awareness, as well as vice versa' (270). Over and above all that, I may say that The Future of the Cognitive Revolution is a consistent collection of more than thirty very good papers written by outstanding authors."--Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences "Instructive and fun. A valuable supplement."--Choice "The 25 chapters and related introductions in The Future of the Cognitive Revolution provide one of the finest compilations of current issues and perspectives within cognitive science. . . . [It] is written in clear and accessible language intended for a wide audience. The editors, Johnson and Erneling, provide masterful introductions to book sections and a general Introduction and Afterword that help the reader to have an overview and navigate through the book. The book could be used in an upper level undergraduate course or a graduate seminar on cognition, or subsets of chapters could be easily incorporated into graduate seminars in related disciplines. I highly recommend this book for new entrants into cognitive science as well as for seasoned researchers. This book should not be ignored."--Contemporary Psychology "[T]he use of any formal language automatizes and standardizes human thinking. From that point of view, the computer is not a model or a partner for the human mind. It is only an invention that . . . supports human mental skills. If we assume that the chapters presented in parts four and five of The Future of the Cognitive Revolution are something that can influence the mainstream of cognitive science, then we can say that cognitive revolution has a future. This future is the realization that culture together with its psychophysical products . . . constitute the environment of individual minds, that we cannot separate human thought from human action in a particular environment: 'All action involves some amount of awareness, as well as vice versa' (270). Over and above all that, I may say that The Future of the Cognitive Revolution is a consistent collection of more than thirty very good papers written by outstanding authors."--Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences "Instructive and fun. A valuable supplement."--Choice


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195103342
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 416
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Width: 159 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0195103343
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jun 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 784 gr


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