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Models and cognition : prediction and explanation in everyday life and in science / Jonathan A. Waskan.
Author
Waskan, Jonathan A.
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English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Description
xiv, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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BD418.3 .W37 2006
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Philosophy of mind
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Cognitive science
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Philosophy
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Cognition
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Summary note
"In this book, Jonathan Waskan challenges cognitive science's dominant model of mental representation and proposes a novel, well-devised alternative. The traditional view in the cognitive sciences uses a linguistic (propositional) model of mental representation. This logic-based model of cognition informs and constrains both the classical tradition of artificial intelligence and modeling in the connectionist tradition. It falls short, however, when confronted by the frame problem - the lack of a principled way to determine which features of a representation must be updated when new information becomes available. Proposed alternatives, including the imagistic model, have not so far resolved this problem. Waskan proposes instead the Intrinsic Cognitive Models (ICM) hypothesis, which argues that representational states can be conceptualized as the cognitive equivalent of scale models."--Jacket.
Notes
"A Bradford book."
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-317) and index.
Contents
Thoughts about the mind: past, present, and future
Folk psychology and cognitive science
Content, supervenience, and cognitive science
Dueling metaphors
Thinking in its entirety
From metaphor to mechanism
Models of explanation
The model model
Mind and world.
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ISBN
0262232545 ((alk. paper))
9780262232548
9780262517546
026251754X
LCCN
2006043842
OCLC
64592261
International Article Number
9780262232548
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