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Models and cognition : prediction and explanation in everyday life and in science /

"In this book, Jonathan Waskan challenges cognitive science's dominant model of mental representation and proposes a novel, well-devised alternative. The traditional view in the cognitive sciences uses a linguistic (propositional) model of mental representation. This logic-based model of c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Waskan, Jonathan A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Thoughts about the mind: past, present, and future
  • Folk psychology and cognitive science
  • Content, supervenience, and cognitive science
  • Dueling metaphors
  • Thinking in its entirety
  • From metaphor to mechanism
  • Models of explanation
  • The model model
  • Mind and world.