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The Search for Mind

By Sean O Nuallain

Book information

Publisher
Intellect (UK)
Year
2000
ISBN
9781841500218, 1-84150-021-6
LCC
BF311 .O58 2002
Open Library ID
OL3584426M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2018282 bytes)
Edition
2nd
Pages
288\288
Topic
Medicine Neurology
Time added
2013-06-01 17:46:33

Description

The degree to which cognitive science can aspire to be the science of mind is a difficult issue. Proposing an integrated approach to cognitive science,this book is a revised edition to meet the newest developments of this rapidly changing field. Reconstructing cognitive science in a presuppositionless way, the first part includes clear introductions to the disciplines which traditionally are seen to constitute cognitive science. From this analysis, a framework emerges in which such issues as the relation between symbolic and subsymbolic cognition and the interrelation of context, situated cognition and the structure of language are resolved. The second part of the book focuses on the nature of symbol systems, considered generically, before going on to detail a theory of consciousness and selfhood. Finally, these strands are woven together in a new theory of cognition and its development. It is concluded that a science that fully attempts to treat cognition must remain au fait with the findings from all other approaches to the study of mind, ranging from the purely behaviorist to the purely experiential.

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