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This book describes and explores six current approaches to the study of mind: the neuroscientific, the behavioral, the competence approach, the ecological, the phenomenological, and the computational. No other book in cognitive science covers such a broad range of research programs and topics in such a balanced fashion. The first chapter is a mini-history and philosophy of psychology which reviews some of the scientific developments and philosophical arguments behind these six different approaches. Each subsequent chapter presents work that is on the frontiers of research in its field.
"One rarely sees books in cognitive science that include the ecological, phenomenological, and behavioral approaches to the study of the mind. Cognitive science is currently one of the more exciting and productive areas of interdisciplinary research, and this book makes an important contribution to this field. I especially think that philosophers of the mind and psychology could learn a great deal about the range of approaches to the study of mind that are being practiced. Many workers in these areas are not aware that there are psychologists working on research that is outside the strictly functionalist/computationalist paradigm." — Stephen M. Downes, Northwestern University
Preface
1. Approaches to Mind
Robert G. Burton
2. On the Nature of Theories: A Neurocomputational Perspective
Paul M. Churchland
3. Connectionism and the Future of Folk Psychology
William Bechtel and A. A. Abrahamsen
4. Squirrel Monkeys, Concepts, and Logic
Roger K. Thomas
5. Connecting the Cognitive and the Cultural: Artificial Minds as Methodological Devices in the Study of the Sociocultural
Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson
6. Without Perception, There Is No Knowledge: Implications for Artificial Intelligence
Ulric Neisser
7. On the Phenomenology of Remembering: The Neglected Case of Place Memory
Edward S. Casey
8. The Owl and the Electric Encyclopedia
Brian Cantwell Smith
9. Reduction, Elimination, and Strategic Interdependence
Robert G. Burton
Contributors