Mind as machine / 1
Margaret A. Boden (Author)
Cognitive science is the project of understanding the mind by modelling its workings. Its development is one of the most remarkable and fascinating intellectual achievements of the modern era. Mind as Machine is a masterful history of cognitive science, told by one of its most eminent practitioners.
Print Book, English, 2008
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2008
XLVIII, 700 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme
9780199241446, 9780199292370, 9780199545643, 9780199543168, 0199241449, 019929237X, 0199545642, 019954316X
263460258
1. Setting the Scene ; 2. Man as machine: origins of the idea ; 3. Anticipatory engines ; 4. Maybe minds are machines too ; 5. Movements beneath the mantle ; 6. Cognitive science comes together ; 7. The rise of computational psychology ; 8. The mystery of the missing discipline ; 9. Transforming linguistics ; 10. When GOFAI was NEWFAI ; 11. Of bombs and bombshells ; 12. Connectionism, its birth and renaissance ; 13. Swimming alongside the kraken ; 14. From neurophysiology to computational neuroscience ; 15. A-life in embryo ; 16. Philosophies of mind as machine ; 17. What next?