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| List of Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: What is Cognitive Science? Broad Construal | |
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| Narrow Construal | |
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| Cognition: Broad and Narrow | |
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| Computation: Broad and Narrow | |
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| The Working Conception of Cognitive Science | |
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| Appendix: 1978 Sloan Report | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Historical Background: Introduction | |
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| Associationism | |
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| Introduction: What is Associationism? Generic Empiricist Associationism | |
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| Varieties of Associationism | |
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| Locke and James | |
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| The End of Classical Associationism | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Behaviorism and Cognitivism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Rise of Behaviorism and Stimulus-Response Psychology | |
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| Challenges to Behaviorism and Stimulus-Response Psychology | |
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| Cognitivism: Information Processing Psychology | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Biological Background | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Brain Ventricles vs. Brain Substance | |
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| Cortical Localization vs. Holism | |
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| Nerve Net Theory vs. the Neuron Doctrine | |
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| The First Half of the Twentieth Century | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Neuro-Logical Background | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Neural Networks and the Logic of Propositions | |
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| Perceptrons | |
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| Linear Separability and XOR: McCulloch and Pitts Nets and Perceptrons | |
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| Simple Detector Semantics | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| The Digital Computational Theory of Mind: Introduction | |
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| A Sample Artificial Intelligence Model: SHRDLU | |
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| Introduction | |
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| SHRDLU Dialogue | |
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| The Program | |
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| Limitations | |
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| Historical Role of SHRDLU | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Architecture(s) | |
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| Introduction: Some Preliminary Concepts | |
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| Turing Machines | |
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| von Neumann Machines | |
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| Production Systems | |
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| Intermezzo: Pandemonium | |
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| Taxonomizing Architectures | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Representation(s) | |
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| Introduction: The Variety of Representations: Some Standard High Level Formats | |
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| The Nature of Digital Computational Representation | |
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| Interpretational Semantics | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| The Digital Computational Theory of Mind | |
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| Introduction | |
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| From the Representational Theory of Mind to the Computational Theory of Mind | |
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| The Digital Computational Theory of Mind and the Language of Thought | |
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| DCTM and the Mind-Body Problem | |
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| DCTM and Representational Content | |
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| DCTM and Consciousness (I) | |
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| Modular (Cognitive) Architectures | |
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| Appendix: Modularity: Gall vs. Fodor | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Suggested Reading. | |
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| Criticisms of the Digital Computational Theory of Mind | |
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| Introduction: The Turing Test (Again) | |
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| Against Strong AI: Searle and the Chinese Room | |
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| The Digital Computational Mind in the Chinese Room | |
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| The DCTM and Consciousness (II) | |
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| The DCTM and Mental Content | |
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| Against Cognitivism | |
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| DCTM Hardward and the Brain | |
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| The Domain and Scope of the DCTM | |
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| Study Questions. Suggested Reading | |
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| Connectionist Computational Theory of Mind: Introduction | |
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| Sample Connectionist Networks | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Jets and Sharks | |
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| NETtalk | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Connectionism: Basic Notions and Variations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic Notions and Terminology | |
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| Learning and Training | |
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| Representation(s) | |
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| Generic Connectionism | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Connectionist Computational Theory of Mind | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Connectionist Computational Theory of Mind | |
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| Motivations for the CCTM | |
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| A Bit of History: Connectionism and Associationism | |
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| Interpreting Connectionism: PTC | |
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| Taxonomizing Architectures (II) | |
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| Appendix: Connectionism and Turing's Unorganized Machines | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Criticisms of the Connectionist Computational Theory of Mind | |
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| Introduction | |