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ISBN: 026266058X

ISBN13: 9780262660587

Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science

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The question, "What is Cognitive Science?" is often asked but seldom answered to anyone's satisfaction. Until now, most of the answers have come from the new breed of philosophers of mind. This book, however, is written by a distinguished psychologist and computer scientist who is well-known for his work on the conceptual foundations of cognitive science, and especially for his research on mental imagery, representation, and perception.

In Computation and Cognition, Pylyshyn argues that computation must not be viewed as just a convenient metaphor for mental activity, but as a literal empirical hypothesis. Such a view must face a number of serious challenges. For example, it must address the question of "strong equivalents" of processes, and must empirically distinguish between phenomena which reveal what knowledge the organism has, phenomena which reveal properties of the biologically determined "functional architecture" of the mind. The principles and ideas Pylyshyn develops are applied to a number of contentious areas of cognitive science, including theories of vision and mental imagery. In illuminating such timely theoretical problems, he draws on insights from psychology, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, and psychology of mind.

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Why the author is not doing a revision of the book

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I am hardly qualified to review the book since I am its author (sorry about the self-congratulatory stars, but they are required by the form!). I want to mention that the publishers have asked me repeatedly to revise it for another edition. And each time I consider doing so and look over the book, I find that there is nothing I would change. I still believe it represents the distillation of the tacit beliefs that are driving the cognitive science research, even when the practitioners are not fully aware of it and sometimes even when they assert the opposite. The book has been used in classes in psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence and pilosophy of mind. While there are things that could be added to the text were a new version to be written, there is nothing I would withdraw or change in what is in the text as it stands.-- Zenon Pylyshyn
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