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What is cognitive science?

Title
What is cognitive science? / Barbara Von Eckardt.
Author
Von Eckardt, Barbara.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1993.

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Book/TextUse in library BF311 .V624 1992Off-site

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Description
x, 466 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Attempts to prove that the field of cognitive science can exist as a coherent intellectual enterprise and lays the foundations for understanding what it means to be a cognitive scientist. The author characterizes the basic assumptions that define the cognitive science approach.
Series Statement
A Bradford book
Subject
  • Cognitive science
  • Cognition
  • Cognition
  • cognition
  • Cognitive science
  • Kognition
  • Kognitionswissenschaft
  • Cognitiewetenschap
  • Interdisciplinaire samenwerking
Note
  • "A Bradford book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-457) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Some Preliminaries -- 2. The Domain and the Basic Questions -- 3. The Computational Assumption -- 4. Representation in General -- 5. Mental Representation -- 6. Current Approaches to Content Determination -- 7. Constraints on a Theory of Content Determination -- 8. Significance -- 9. The Methodological Assumptions -- Appendix: Characterizing an Immature Science -- Notes -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Technical Terms -- References -- Sumpplementary Readings -- Index.
ISBN
  • 0262220466
  • 9780262220460
LCCN
92010167
OCLC
  • ocm25711827
  • 25711827
  • SCSB-1970760
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library