Robert Cummins presents a series of essays motivated by the following question: Is the mind a collection of beliefs and desires that respond to and condition our feeling and perceptual experiences, or is this just a natural way to talk about it? What sort of conceptual framework do we need to understand what is really going on in our brains? INDICE: Acknowledgements; Preface; 1: What it is like to be a computer;2: The LOT of the causal theory of mental content; 3: Systematicity; 4: Systematicity and the cognition of the structured domains with Jim Blackmon, David Byrd, Pierre Poirier, Martin Roth, and Georg Schwarz; 5: Methodological reflections on belief; 6: Inexplicit information; 7: Representation and indication with Pierre Poirier; 8: Representation and unexploited content with Jim Blackmon, David Byrd, Alexa Lee, and Martin Roth; 9: Haugeland on representation and intentionality; 10: Truth and meaning; 11: Meaning and content in cognitive science with Martin Roth; 12: Representational specialization: the synthetic a priori revisited; 13: Biological preparedness and evolutionary explanation withDenise Dellarosa Cummins; 14: Cognitive evolutionary psychology without representational nativism; 15: Connectionism and the rationale constraint on cognitive explanation; 16: 'How does it work?' vs. 'What are the laws?': Two conceptions of psychological explanation
- ISBN: 978-0-19-954803-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha Publicación: 28/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés