The Foundations of Cognitive Science [Paperback]

Written by a stellar group of internationally renowned scholars, this work gathers thirteen new essays on key topics in the lively, interdisciplinary field of cognitive science. Philosophers, psychologists, and neurologists come together to investigate such fascinating subjects as the neural basis of language, cognition, and emotion; consciousness; vision; rationality; artificial life; and the relations between mind and world--our representation of numbers and space, for instance. For anyone who has ever been fascinated by the exploration of the human mind, this book is amust.

Introduction
1. How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness,Ned Block
2. Life and Cognition,Margaret Boden
3. The Representation of Number in Natural Language Syntax and in the Language of Thought: A Case Study of the Evolution and Development of Representational Resources,Susan Carey
4. The View From Here: The Nonsymbolic Structure of Spatial Representation,Ilya Farber, Will Peterman, and Patricia Smith Churchland
5. Toward a Cognitive Neurobiology of the Moral Virtues,Paul M. Churchland
6. Reflections on the Neurobiology of Emotion and Feeling,Antonio R. Damasio
7. Words and Concepts in the Brain,Hanna Damasio
8. What Thought Requires,Donald Davidson
9. Things About Things,Daniel C. Dennett
10. On Referential Semantics and Cognitive Science,James T. Higginbotham
11. Theories of Concepts: A Wider Task,Christopher Peacocke
12. Connecting Vision with the World: Tracking the Missing Link,Zenon W. Pylyshyn
13. Rationality and Action,John R. Searle
Bibliography, Index of Names

Jo?o Branquinho is Professor of Philosophy at Lisbon University.