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The world in the head /

The World in the Head collects the best of Robert Cummins' papers on mental representation and psychological explanation. Running through these papers are a pair of themes: that explaining the mind requires functional analysis, not subsumption under "psychological laws", and that the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cummins, Robert, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is it like to be a computer?
  • The LOT of the causal theory of mental content
  • Systematicity
  • Systematicity and the cognition of structured domains / Robert Cummins, Jim Blackmon, David Byrd, Pierre Poirier, Martin Roth, and Georg Schwarz
  • Methodological reflections on belief
  • Inexplicit information
  • Representation and indication / Robert Cummins and Pierre Poirier
  • Representation and unexploited content / Robert Cummins, Jim Blackmon, David Byrd, Alexa Lee, and Martin Roth
  • Haugeland on representation and intentionality
  • Truth and meaning
  • Meaning and content in cognitive science / Robert Cummins and Martin Roth
  • Representational specialization : the synthetic a priori revisited
  • Biological preparedness and evolutionary explanation / Robert Cummins and Denise Dellarosa Cummins
  • Cognitive evolutionary psychology without representational nativism / Robert Cummins, Denise Dellarosa Cummins, and Pierre Poirier
  • Connectionism and the rationale constraint on cognitive explanation
  • 'How does it work?' vs. 'What are the laws?' : two conceptions of psychological explanation.