The Search for Mind : Second Edition

Proposing an integrated approach to the science of mind, this work incorporates ideas from across the board into a new theory of consciousness, selfhood and cognitive development. It focuses on the nature of symbol systems, detailing theories of consciousness and selfhood. Machine generated contents note: Part 1 - The Constituent Disciplines of Cognitive Science Philosophical Epistemology Glossary 1.0 What is Philosophical Epistemology? 1.1 The reduced history of Philosophy Part I - The Classical Age 1.2 Mind and World - The problem of objectivity 1.3 The reduced history of Philosophy Part II - The twentieth century 1.4 The philosophy of Cognitive Science 1.5 Mind in Philosophy: summary 1.6 The Nolanian Framework (so far) Psychology 2.0 Why is Psychology so difficult? 2.1 A brief history of Experimental Psychology 2.2 Methodologies in Psychology 2.3 Perception 2.4 Memory 2.5 Mind in Psychology Linguistics 3.0 Introduction 3.1 Why Linguistics? 3.2 Computation and Linguistics 3.3 The main grammatical theories 3.4 Language development and linguistics 3.5 Toward a definition of context 3.6 The multifarious uses of Language 3.7 Linguistics and Computational Linguistics 3.8 Language and other symbol systems 3.9 On the notion of context 3.10 Mind in Linguistics: summary Neuroscience 4.0 The constituent disciplines of Neuroscience 4.1 The methodology of Neuroscience 4.2 Gross Neuroanatomy 4.3 Some relevant findings 4.4 Connectionism (PDP) 4.5 The victory of Neuroscience? 4.6 Mind in Neuroscience: summary Artificial Intelligence 5.0 Introduction 5.1 Al and Cognitive Science 5.2 Skeptics and their techniques 5.3 Al as Computer Science 5.4 Al as software 5.5 The current methodological debate 5.6 Context, syntax and semantics 5.7 Mind in Al 5.8 Texts on Al Etholoqy and Ethnoscience 6.1 Etology 6.2 Ethnoscience 6.3 Mind in Ethology arid Ethnoscience Part II - A New Foundation for Cognitive Science - Symbol Systems 7.1 Characteristics of symbol systems 7.2 Context and the layers of symbol systems 7.3 Mind and symbol systems Consciousness and Selfhood 8.0 Introduction 8.1 Cognitive views 8.2 What is at stake? 8.3 Consciousness as treated in Philosophy 8.4 The Development of Selfhood 8.5 The minimal requirements for this theory 8.6 Self as a filter 8.7 Self and motivation 8.8 Conclusions 8.9 Recent developments Cognitive Science and the Search for Mind 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Review 9.3 A Theory of Mind anyone? 9.4 Foundational considerations 9.5 Coda: the Nolanian Framework. The degree to which Cognitive Science can aspire to be the Science of the Mind is an ongoing debate. This highly influential book, published as a Second Edition, proposes a new approach to issues of the mind and of consciousness, drawing together themes from Philosophy right through to Artificial Intelligence. Proposing an integrated approach to the science of mind, the book has been revised to meet the newest developments of its rapidly changing field. The author incorporates ideas from across the board into a new theory of consciousness, selfhood and cognitive development. The first part presents clear introductions to the disciplines that are traditionally seen to constitute Cognitive Science - Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Ethnology. The second section focuses on the nature of symbol systems, detailing theories of consciousness and selfhood. The two strands are woven together into a new theory of cognition and its development, and the author 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 the mind, from the purely behaviourist to the purely experiential. As the Second Edition is published, The Search for Mind is unquestionably among the most acclaimed accounts of the area written by a single author. "The degree to which cognitive science as currently conceived can aspire to be the science of mind is a difficult issue. Proposing an integrated 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."--BOOK JACKET Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 4 Preface......Page 6 Introduction......Page 7 1. Philosophical Epistemology......Page 15 2. Psychology......Page 55 3 Linguistics......Page 99 4 Neuroscience......Page 147 5 Artificial Intelligence......Page 184 6 Ethology and Ethnoscience......Page 217 Part II - A New Foundation for Cognitive Science......Page 224 7 Symbol Systems......Page 226 8 Consciousness and Selfhood......Page 233 9 Cognitive Science and the Search for Mind......Page 258 Bibliography......Page 267 Author Index......Page 280 Subject Index......Page 282 Seán Ó Nualláin. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 262-274) And Indexes. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.