In this volume, originally published in 1970, an attempt is made to examine the more logical
aspects of thinking, such as the ability to abstract and the manner in which concepts …

Provides a collection of readings on various theories of the psychology of thinking and
reasoning, on artificial intelligence, and on psycholinguistics. Contributing authors present …

If cognitive science does not exist then it is necessary to invent it. That slogan
accommodates any reasonable attitude about the subject. One attitude-an optimistic one-is …

It seems to me that the ingredients of most theories both in artificial intelligence and in
psychology have been on the whole too minute, local, and unstructured to account-either …

This chapter aims to present a conceptual framework within which the hitherto disparate
topics of thinking research may be interrelated, and within which a general theory may be …

Imagine visiting a large group of islands and exploring each of them thoroughly. You learn
how to find your way around each, yet you lack a complete understanding of the overall …

Two qilestions ought to haunt any student of cognition. First, is it possible to achieve a
scientific understanding of the mind? It is to be, hoped, of ccurse, that a complete science is …

In this chapter, the author proposes (or presupposes) that we have no convincing reasons
for suspecting that good old cognitive science is not essentially sound. Therefore it should …

Cognitive science is the study of human intelligence in all of its forms, from perception and
action to language and reasoning. The exercise of intelligence is called cognition. Under the …

Can concepts, the'building blocks of our mental life', be studied by experimental
psychologists? Well it is certainly the case that the patterns of human inference can be so …