The goal of this book was to introduce a large-scale model of the mind. The thesis is that the
human brain performs its great variety of functions by exploiting the advantages of many …

While the mind remains a mysterious and inaccessible phenomenon, many of the
components of mind, such as perception, behavior generation, knowledge representation …

This book provides a sustained and penetrating critique of a wide range of views in modern
cognitive science and philosophy of the mind, from Turing's famous test for intelligence in …

Embodied cognition is a recent development in psychology that practitioners often present
as a superseding standard cognitive science. In this outstanding introduction, Lawrence …

A comprehensive presentation of an approach that proposes a new account of cognition at
levels from the cellular to the social. This book presents the framework for a new …

The advent of the cognitive revolution made mind respectable in psychology once more.
Simultaneously a surge of data in the neuro-and computer sciences began to converge on …

Tracing the history of central concepts from the nineteenth century to the present, this study
surveys the significant contributions of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computer …

Designed specifically for students with no background knowledge in the subject, this
accessible introduction covers all of the basic concepts and major theories in the philosophy …

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware
mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual …

Understanding mental processes in biological terms makes available insights from the new
science of the mind to explore connections between philosophy, psychology, the social …