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title	:	What Is Cognitive Science?
author	:	Von Eckardt, Barbara.
publisher	:	MIT Press
isbn10 | asin	:	026272023X
print isbn13	:	9780262720236
ebook isbn13	:	9780585020532
language	:	English
subject	Cognitive science.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	BF311.V624 1995eb
ddc	:	153
subject	:	Cognitive science.

What Is Cognitive Science? Barbara Von Eckardt A Bradford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England

Fifth printing, 1996 First MIT Press paperback edition, 1995 1993 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Von Eckardt, Barbara. What is cognitive science?/Barbara Von Eckardt. p. cm. "A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 0-262-22046-6 (HB), 0-262-72023-X 1. Cognitive science. I. Title. BF311.V624 1992 153dc20 92-10167 CIP

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Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Some Preliminaries 13 1.1 Research Frameworks 13 1.2 An Example of Cognitive Science Research 32 1.3 The Characterization in Brief 45 2 The Domain and the Basic Questions 57 2.1 The Identification Assumption 57 2.2 The Property Assumptions 72 2.3 The Grouping Assumption 82 2.4 The Basic Questions 91 3 The Computational Assumption 97 3.1 The Computational Linking Assumption 97 3.2 The Computational System Assumption 104 3.3 Conventional Machines 116 3.4 Connectionist Machines 125 3.5 The Evolution of Cognitive Science 138 4 Representation in General 143 4.1 The Representational Linking Assumption 143 4.2 Peirce's Triadic Analysis 145 4.3 The Representation-Object Relation 149 4.4 The Representation-Interpretant Relation 152 4.5 The Representational System Assumption 158 5 Mental Representation 161 5.1 What Mental Representations Are Not 161 5.2 The Representation Bearer 168 5.3 The Semantics of Mental Representation 188 6 Current Approaches to Content Determination 197 6.1 Grounding Mental Content 198 6.2 The Structural Isomorphism Approach 206

Page viii 6.3 The Functional Role Approach 209 6.4 The Causal Historical Approach 214 6.5 The Indicator Approach 218 6.6 The Biological Function Approach 223 7 Constraints on a Theory of Content Determination 233 7.1 Naturalism 234 7.2 The Descriptive Case against Internalism 239 7.3 A Normative Case for Internalism 253 7.4 Methodological Individualism* 262 8 Significance 281

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