Natural Language and Possible Minds
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Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature(303 Value Inquiry Book Series / Cognitive Science)

Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature(303 Value Inquiry Book Series / Cognitive Science)


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In Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature Prakash Mondal attempts to demonstrate that language can reveal the hidden logical texture of diverse types of mentality in non-humans, contrary to popular belief. The widely held assumption in mainstream cognitive science is that language being humanly unique introduces an anthropomorphic bias in investigations into the nature of other possible minds. This book turns this around by formulating a lattice of mental structures distilled from linguistic structures constituting the cognitive building blocks of an ensemble of biological entities/beings. This turns out to have surprising consequences for machine cognition as well. Challenging mainstream views, this book will appeal to cognitive scientists, philosophers of mind, linguists and also cognitive ethologists.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction  1.1 On Minds and Mental Structures  1.2 A Note on the Methodology  1.3 Why Natural Language?  1.4 Summary 2 Natural Language and the Linguistic Foundations of Mind  2.1 Language as a Window onto Thought and Reasoning  2.2 Language as Conceptualization  2.3 Language as a Mental Tool  2.4 The Expressive Power of Natural Language and Ineffability  2.5 Summary 3 Possible Minds from Natural Language  3.1 Linguistic Structures and Mental Structures  3.2 Mental Structures and the Forms of Possible Minds  3.3 Summary 4 Natural Language, Machines and Minds  4.1 Machines and Minds  4.2 Computation and Natural Language  4.3 Summary 5 Possible Minds and the Cognitive  5.1 Summary 6 Conclusion References Index

About the Author :
Prakash Mondal, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He is the author of Language, Mind and Computation (Palgrave, 2014) and Language and Cognitive Structures of Emotion (Palgrave, 2016) and Language, Biology and Cognition (completed).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789004316652
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Series Title: 303 Value Inquiry Book Series / Cognitive Science
  • Weight: 394 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9004316655
  • Publisher Date: 03 Aug 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature
  • Width: 155 mm


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