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Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science

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ISBN-10: 0521691907

ISBN-13: 9780521691901

Edition: 2012

Authors: Keith Frankish, William Ramsey

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Cognitive science spans several disciplines including psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and philosophy. This volume focuses on broad themes rather than technical matters, surveying the foundational and philosophical issues, the principal areas of research and the major research programs.
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Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 7.05" wide x 9.69" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Keith Frankish is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at The Open University, UK and Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Program in Neurosciences at the University of Crete. He is the author of Mind and Supermind (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Consciousness (2005). He is co-editor of In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond (with Jonathan St B. T. Evans, 2009) and New Waves in Philosophy of Action (with Jes#250;s H. Aguilar and Andrei A. Buckareff, 2010).

Introduction
Foundations
History and core themes
The representational theory of mind
Cognitive architectures
Aspects of Cognition
Perception
Action
Human learning and memory
Reasoning and decision making
Concepts
Language
Emotion
Consciousness
Research Programs
Cognitive neuroscience
Evolutionary psychology
Embodied, embedded, and extended cognition
Animal cognition
Glossary