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We began to set up shop in mid-June, and there are still lots of loose ends. But you can come in and look around just the same ...
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Ron McClamrock's Existential Cognition: Computational Minds in the World provides a defense of the emerging embedded view of mind. He performs the much needed task of integrating philosophical subtlty with a solid grasp of the pitfalls and successes of research in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology.
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Jan 1995 | Univ of Chicago Pr | ISBN: 0226556417 |
May 1999 | Blackwell Pub | ISBN: 0631205454 |
Mind and Cognition: An Anthology (2e), William Lycan (ed.). This 630 page anthology gathers decidedly important, currently relevant work from contemporary philosophers and cognitive scientists.
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Robert Stainton's Philosophical Perspectives on Language is a nice secondary-source introduction to philosophy of language. Through occassional slight over-simplification, he manages what we ought to be happy about: he doesn't lose undergraduates, and he even imparts a good sense for the issues.
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Ap 1996 | Broadview Pr | ISBN: 1551110865 |
Feb 1995 | Harperperennial Library | ISBN: 0060976519 |
Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct is a witty and informative tour of the results of liguistic and cognitive scientific inquiry into human language acquisition, processing, and ability.
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Apes, Language, and the Human Mind, by Sue Savage-Rumbuagh (comparative psychologist), Stuart Shanker (psychologist/philosopher), and Talbot Taylor (linguist), is a 288-page, interdisciplinary patchwork defense of nonhuman primates' ability to utilize language.
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June 1998 | Oxford Univ Pr | ISBN: 0195109864 |
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