The Mind's New Science: A History Of The Cognitive RevolutionThe first full-scale history of cognitive science, this work addresses a central issue: What is the nature of knowledge? |
Contents
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A HISTORICAL | 47 |
Empiricist Responses to Descartes | 54 |
The LogicalEmpiricist Program | 60 |
Is Epistemology Necessary? | 71 |
Fresh Approaches to Epistemology | 78 |
The Special Status of Language and Linguistics | 234 |
Ethnoscience | 244 |
Psychological Forays | 253 |
The Flirtation with Reductionism | 260 |
Donald Hebbs Bold Synthesis | 271 |
Studies of Two Systems | 278 |
Will Neuroscience Devour Cognitive Science? | 285 |
Introduction | 291 |
The Dialectic Role of Philosophy | 86 |
Scientific Psychology in the Nineteenth Century | 98 |
The Early Twentieth Century | 105 |
A View from Above | 111 |
The Expert Tool 1 38 | 138 |
The Search for Autonomy | 182 |
A Tentative Evaluation | 218 |
Edward Tylor Launches the Discipline of Anthropology | 227 |
A Figment of the Imagination? | 323 |
A World Categorized | 340 |
How Rational a Being? | 360 |
The Computational Paradox and | 381 |
REFERENCES | 401 |
N AME IN DEX 41 7 | 422 |
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