Authors: Stainton
ISBN-13: 9781405113045, ISBN-10: 1405113049
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: May 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Robert J. Stainton is Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He has published some 40 articles on various topics in linguistics and philosophy, and has authored or edited eight previous books, including Philosophical Perspectives on Language (1996), Knowledge and Mind (2000) and is co-editor of Philosophy and Linguistics (1999).
This volume introduces central issues in cognitive science by means of debates on key questions.
1 | The case for massively modular models of mind | 3 |
2 | Is the mind really modular? | 22 |
3 | Is the human mind massively modular? | 37 |
4 | Irrational nativist exuberance | 59 |
5 | The case for linguistic nativism | 81 |
6 | On the innateness of language | 97 |
7 | Bounded and rational | 115 |
8 | Bounded rationality and the enlightenment picture of cognitive virtue | 134 |
9 | Cognition needs syntax but not rules | 147 |
10 | Phenomena and mechanisms : putting the symbolic, connectionist, and dynamical systems debate in broader perspective | 159 |
11 | Consciousness and qualia can be reduced | 189 |
12 | Consciousness and qualia cannot be reduced | 202 |
13 | Locating meaning in the mind (where it belongs) | 219 |
14 | The intentional inexistence of language - but not cars | 237 |
15 | Is the aim of perception to provide accurate representations? | 259 |
16 | Is the aim of perception to provide accurate representations? : a case for the "no" side | 275 |
17 | Can cognition be factorized into internal and external components? | 291 |
18 | The internal and external components of cognition | 307 |