Historical Foundations of Cognitive Science

My interest in gathering together a collection of this sort was generated by a fortuitous combination of historical studies under Professor Keith Lehrer and studies in cognitive science under Professor R. Michael Harnish at the University of Arizona. Work on the volume began there while I was an ins...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Smith, J.C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
Series:Philosophical Studies Series
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Socratic and Platonic Sources of Cognitivism
  • The First Functionalist
  • Mental Representations in Later Medieval Scholasticism
  • Ockham on Mental Language
  • Linguistics and Descartes
  • Spinoza’s Science of the ‘Idea of the Body’
  • Leibnizian Resonances
  • Hume and Cognitive Science
  • Reid and the Contemporary View of Consciousness
  • Kant’s Functionalism
  • Kant’s Dedicated Cognitivist System
  • Husserl and the Representational Theory of Mind
  • The Introspectionism of Titchener
  • Analytic Philosophy and Mental Phenomena
  • Intuitive Psychologists: Mental Activities and Their Parts