Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

Are all three of Marr's levels needed? Should they be kept distinct? We argue for the distinct
contributions and methodologies of each level of analysis. It is important to maintain them …

Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are
all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the …

Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds explains the crucial role that human cognition research
plays in the design and realization of artificial intelligence systems, illustrating the steps …

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 …

Could a machine think? Could the mind itself be a thinking machine? The computer
revolution transformed discussion of these questions, offering our best prospects yet for …

Philosophy of Social Science: A Contemporary Introduction examines perennial questions of
philosophy through engaging the empirical study of society. Questions of normativity …

We live in an age of scientific collaboration, popular uprisings, failing political parties, and
increasing corporate power. Many of these kinds of collective action derive from the …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …