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Mind, body, world : foundations of cognitive science / Michael R.W. Dawson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Edmonton, AB : AU Press, Athabasca University, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781927356180
  • 9781927356197
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BF311 .M563 2013
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Contents:
Multiple levels of investigation -- Elements of classical cognitive science -- Elements of connectionist cognitive science -- Elements of embodied cognitive science -- Classical music and cognitive science -- Marks of the classical? -- Seeing and visualizing -- Towards a cognitive dialectic.
Subject: "Mind, Body, World" addresses a number of questions currently being asked by those practicing in the field: What are the core assumptions of the three different schools? What are the relationships between these different sets of core assumptions? Is there only one cognitive science, or are there many different cognitive sciences? Giving the schools equal treatment and displaying a broad and deep understanding of the field, Dawson highlights the fundamental tensions and lines of fragmentation that exist among the schools and provides a refreshing and unifying framework for students of cognitive science --
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Includes bibliographies and index.

The cognitive sciences: one or many? -- Multiple levels of investigation -- Elements of classical cognitive science -- Elements of connectionist cognitive science -- Elements of embodied cognitive science -- Classical music and cognitive science -- Marks of the classical? -- Seeing and visualizing -- Towards a cognitive dialectic.

"Mind, Body, World" addresses a number of questions currently being asked by those practicing in the field: What are the core assumptions of the three different schools? What are the relationships between these different sets of core assumptions? Is there only one cognitive science, or are there many different cognitive sciences? Giving the schools equal treatment and displaying a broad and deep understanding of the field, Dawson highlights the fundamental tensions and lines of fragmentation that exist among the schools and provides a refreshing and unifying framework for students of cognitive science --

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