Psychology is now ready for unified theories of cognition--so says Allen Newell, a leading
investigator in computer science and cognitive psychology. Not everyone will agree on a …

While the notion of the mind as information-processor—a kind of computational system—is
widely accepted, many scientists and philosophers have assumed that this account of …

Flesh and world are surely flavors of the moment. Talk of mind as intimately embodied and
profoundly environmentally embedded shimmers at the cusp of the cognitive scientific …

Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines,
including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting …

How do brains make minds? Paul Thagard presents a unified, brain-based theory of
cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds of thinking, right up to …

The cognitive revolution offered an alternative to merely analyzing human behavior, using
the notion of computation to rigorously express hypotheses about the mind. Computation …

Abstract The Character of Mind provides a sweeping and accessible general introduction to
the philosophy of mind. Colin McGinn covers all of the main topics--the mind-body problem …

How did the study of cognition and intelligence get started? Although some psychologists in
the nineteenth century were interested in cognitive processing (eg, Donders, 1868/1869) …

How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be
studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a …