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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Cognitive Science (Taking Sides)

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The book is divided into 6 parts: Mind and Brain; Concepts; Memory; Language; Intelligence; and Reasoning and Intuition. If you look at these six parts, you will realize right away that this book is not a book about cognitive science. Instead it is a book about cognitive psychology. A cognitive science book might have papers about representation, connectionism versus physical symbol systems, etc. But nearly all of the papers are drawn from the psychological literature. Only a few papers are from a philosophical perspective, and the AI perspective gets very little coverage. There are some computational models, but these are computational models of people, not of general cognitive science issues.

The selections are decent, but not distinguished. They probably won't be familiar to students and so might be more provocative than rehashing well-trod debates.

I was hoping for much, much more. If the title of the book had been different (Clashing Views on Cognitive Psychology) I would not have been so disappointed.