The Search for Mind

The degree to which cognitive science as currently conceived can aspire to be the science of mind is a difficult issue. Proposing anintegrated approach to cognitive science, this revised edition of The Search For Mind has been updated to meet the newest developments of this rapidly changing field. The first part of this book constitutes clear introductions to the disciplines that traditionally are seen to constitute cognitive science (namely: Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Ethnology). The second section focuses on the nature of symbol systems, considered generically, and goes on to detail a theory of consciousness and selfhood. The two strands are woven together into a new theory of cognition and its development. O Nuallain concludes that a science that fully attempts to treat cognition must remain au fait with the findings from all other approaches to the study of mind, from the purely behaviorist to the purely experiential.

Preface	p. 1
Introduction	p. 2
In search of mind	p. 2
The field of Cognitive Science, as treated in this book	p. 4
History of Cognitive Science	p. 5
Topics treated	p. 6
User's guide to this book	p. 8
Further reading	p. 9
The Constituent Disciplines of Cognitive Science
Philosophical Epistemology	p. 10
Glossary	p. 10
What is Philosophical Epistemology?	p. 12
The reduced history of Philosophy Part I--The Classical Age	p. 14
Mind and World--The problem of objectivity	p. 22
The reduced history of Philosophy Part II--The twentieth century	p. 24
The philosophy of Cognitive Science	p. 31
Mind in Philosophy: summary	p. 47
The Nolanian Framework (so far)	p. 48
Psychology	p. 50
Why is Psychology so difficult?	p. 50
A brief history of Experimental Psychology	p. 52
Methodologies in Psychology	p. 60
Perception	p. 62
Memory	p. 69
Mind in Psychology	p. 92
Linguistics	p. 94
Introduction	p. 94
Why Linguistics?	p. 97
Computation and Linguistics	p. 95
The main grammatical theories	p. 99
Language development and linguistics	p. 107
Toward a definition of context	p. 112
The multifarious uses of Language	p. 119
Linguistics and Computational Linguistics	p. 121
Language and other symbol systems	p. 140
On the notion of context	p. 141
Mind in Linguistics: summary
Neuroscience	p. 142
The constituent disciplines of Neuroscience	p. 142
The methodology of Neuroscience	p. 144
Gross Neuroanatomy	p. 149
Some relevant findings	p. 153
Connectionism (PDP)	p. 156
The victory of Neuroscience?	p. 174
Mind in Neuroscience: summary	p. 177
Artificial Intelligence	p. 179
Introduction	p. 179
Al and Cognitive Science	p. 180
Skeptics and their techniques	p. 191
Al as Computer Science	p. 202
Al as software	p. 202
The current methodological debate	p. 206
Context, syntax and semantics	p. 209
Mind in AI	p. 210
Texts on AI	p. 211
Ethology and Ethnoscience	p. 212
Ethology	p. 212
Ethnoscience	p. 215
Mind in Ethology and Ethnoscience	p. 218
A New Foundation for Cognitive Science	p. 219
Symbol Systems	p. 221
Characteristics of symbol systems	p. 221
Context and the layers of symbol systems	p. 226
Mind and symbol systems	p. 226
Consciousness and Selfhood	p. 228
Introduction	p. 228
Cognitive views	p. 230
What is at stake?	p. 237
Consciousness as treated in Philosophy	p. 238
The Development of Selfhood	p. 240
The minimal requirements for this theory	p. 243
Self as a filter	p. 245
Self and motivation	p. 246
Conclusions	p. 247
Recent developments	p. 247
Cognitive Science and the Search for Mind	p. 253
Introduction	p. 253
Review	p. 253
A Theory of Mind anyone?	p. 257
Foundational considerations	p. 258
Coda: the Nolanian Framework	p. 260
Bibliography	p. 262
Author Index	p. 275
Subject Index	p. 277
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