Mind Readings: Introductory Selections on Cognitive Science [Paperback]

Paul Thagard (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 27, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0262700670 | ISBN-13: 978-0262700672

Mind Readings is a collection of accessible readings on some of the most important topics in cognitive science. Although anyone interested in the interdisciplinary study of mind will find the selections well worth reading, they work particularly well with Paul Thagard's textbook Mind: An Introduction Cognitive Science, and provide further discussion on the major topics discussed in that book. The first eight chapters present approaches to cognitive science from the perspective that thinking consists of computational procedures on mental representations. The remaining five chapters discuss challenges to the computational-representational understanding of mind.Contributors : John R. Anderson, Ruth M. J. Byrne, E. H. Durfee, Chris Eliasmith, Owen Flanagan, Dedre Gentner, Janice Glasgow, Philip N. Johnson-Laird, Alan Mackworth, Arthur B. Markman, Douglas L. Medin, Keith Oatley, Dimitri Papadias, Steven Pinker, David E. Rumelhart, Herbert A. Simon.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Thagard has chosen readings wisely, not just to complement histextbook, but as a short stand-alone anthology. The collectionsucceeds admirably." George Graham , Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

About the Author

Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Computer Science, and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of Coherence in Thought and Action (MIT Press, 2000) and Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (second edition, MIT Press, 2005).

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: A Bradford Book (March 27, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262700670
• ISBN-13: 978-0262700672
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #504,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Adapted from the Canadian Encyclopedia:

Paul R. Thagard, philosopher (b at Yorkton, Sask, 1950). Paul Thagard received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saskatchewan (1971), and completed degrees in philosophy at Cambridge University (1977) and the University of Toronto (1977). In 1985 he studied computer science at the University of Michigan (receiving an MSc), where he spent 8 years teaching philosophy at the Dearborn campus before accepting a position as a research psychologist at the University of Princeton (1986). Thagard later joined the University of Waterloo as a professor of philosophy, with a cross appointment to psychology and computer science, and director of the Cognitive Science Program. His considerable body of work (including many books and some 200 articles) has been profoundly influential to the study of human cognition in a wide range of practical and theoretical contexts.

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Web site:
http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~pthagard/Biographies/pault.html