When cognitive scientists apply computational theory to the problem of phenomenal
consciousness, as many have been doing recently, there are two fundamentally distinct …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

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 …

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 …

The breach between learning and use, which is captured by the folk categories “know
what'and" know how”, may well be a product of the structure and practices of our education …

Does metacognition, ie the capacity to form epistemic self-evaluations about one's current
cognitive performance, derive from a mindreading capacity, or does it rely, at least in part, on …

Vinod Goel argues that the cognitive computational conception of the world requires our
thought processes to be precise, rigid, discrete, and unambiguous; yet there are dense …

This text deals with recent changes in the design of intelligent machines. New computer
models of vision and navigation in animals suggest a different way to build machines …

Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic
thought. Many scientific disciplines treat non-linguistic creatures as thinkers, explaining their …

The Problem of Perception is a pervasive and traditional problem aboutour ordinary
conception of perceptual experience. The problem iscreated by the phenomena of …