In a field choked with seemingly impenetrable jargon, Philip N. Johnson-Laird has done the
impossible: written a book about how the mind works that requires no advance knowledge of …

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 …

The development of cognitive science is one of the most remarkable and fascinating
intellectual achievements of the modern era. The quest to understand the mind is as old as …

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 …

Discusses the fundamental issues, problems, and opportunities in cognitive science. Each
chapter opens with a brief sketch of a major research tradition or perspective, followed by …

In a culmination of humanity's millennia-long quest for self knowledge, the sciences of the
mind are now in a position to offer concrete, empirically validated answers to the most …

Cognitive Science provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the study of the
mind. The authors examine the mind from the perspective of different fields, including …

Cognitive Science combines the interdisciplinary streams of cognitive science into a unified
narrative in an all-encompassing introduction to the field. This text presents cognitive …

This book was a long time in the making. There are parts of it that date back to about 1987
and other parts that are very recent indeed. It started out as an attempt to bring my own …

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 …