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Many cognitive processes lie beyond articulate, discursive thought, beyond the reach of current computational notions. This text argues that the cognitive computational conception of the world requires our thought processes to be precise, rigid, discrete and unambiguous, and yet there are dense, ambiguous, and amorphous symbol systems, such as sketching, painting and poetry, found in the arts and everyday discourse that have an important place in cognition. The author maintains that while on occasion our thoughts do conform to the current computational theory of mind, they often are - indeed must be - vague, fluid, ambiguous and amorphous. He argues that if cognitive science takes the classical computational story seriously, it must deny or ignore these processes, or at least relegate them to the realm of the non-mental. Goel introduces design problem solving as a domain of cognition that illustrates these inarticulate, non-discursive thought processes at work through the symbol system of sketching. He argues not that such thoughts must remain non-computational but that our current notions of computation and representation are not rich enough to capture them. Along the way, Goel makes a number of significant and controversial interim points. He shows: that there is a principled distinction between design and non-design problems; that there are standard stages in the solution of design problems; that these stages correlate with the use of different types of external symbol systems; that these symbol systems are usefully individuated in Nelson Goodman's syntactic and semantic terms; and that different cognitive processes are facilitated by different types of symbol systems.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 The computational theory of mind: metatheoretical underpinnings; from mental representations to computation; entailments of the computational theory of mind. Part 2 Lessons from design problem solving: a framework for studying design; cognitive processes involved in design problem solving; a cognitive science analysis of designers' representations; Goodman's analysis of symbol systems; virtues of non-notational symbol systems; the role of sketching in design problem solving. Part 3 Implications, directions and conclusions: implications for the computational theory of mind. Appendices: methodological details of study 1 - structure of design problem spaces; methodological details of study 2 - the role of sketching in design problem solving.

About the Author :
Vinod Goel is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at York University, Canada.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780262071635
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0262071630
  • Publisher Date: 03 Oct 1995
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: A Bradford Book
  • Weight: 567 gr


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