A Companion to Cognitive Science
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

1. Auflage August 1998
810 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-1-55786-542-7
John Wiley & Sons
Unmatched in the quality of its world-renowned contributors, this multidisciplinary companion serves as both a course text and a reference book across the broad spectrum of issues of concern to cognitive science.
List of Contributors and Website Notice.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: The Life of Cognitive Science.
Part II: Areas of Study in Cognitive Science.
Part III: Methodologies of Cognitive Science.
Part IV: Stances in Cognitive Science.
Part V: Controversies in Cognitive Science.
Part VI: Cognitive Science in the Real World.
Author Index.
Subject Index
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: The Life of Cognitive Science.
Part II: Areas of Study in Cognitive Science.
Part III: Methodologies of Cognitive Science.
Part IV: Stances in Cognitive Science.
Part V: Controversies in Cognitive Science.
Part VI: Cognitive Science in the Real World.
Author Index.
Subject Index
William Bechtel is Associate Director of the
Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at Washington University
in St Louis. He is editor of the journal Philosophical
Psychology and the author of numerous books and papers in the
philosophy of cognitive science and related subject areas. These
include: How to do Things With Logic, with C. Grant
Luckhardt, (1994); Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and
Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research, with R. C.
Richardson, (1993); Connectionism and the Mind: An Introduction
to Parallel Processing in Networks, with Adele Abrahamsen,
(Blackwell, 1991; second edition 1999), Philosophy of Mind: An
overview for Cognitive Science (1988), and Philosophy of
Science: An Overview for Cognitive Science (1988).
George Graham is Professor and Chair of the Department of
Philosophy, and Professor of Psychology at the University of
Alabama at Birmingham. He is the co-author of Philosophy Then
and Now, with N. Scott Arnold and T. M. Benditt, (Blackwell,
1998), author of Philosophy of Mind (Blackwell 1993, second
edition 1998), and editor of Philosophical Psychopathology,
with G. L. Stephens, (1994), and Person to Person, with H.
LaFollette, (1989).
Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at Washington University
in St Louis. He is editor of the journal Philosophical
Psychology and the author of numerous books and papers in the
philosophy of cognitive science and related subject areas. These
include: How to do Things With Logic, with C. Grant
Luckhardt, (1994); Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and
Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research, with R. C.
Richardson, (1993); Connectionism and the Mind: An Introduction
to Parallel Processing in Networks, with Adele Abrahamsen,
(Blackwell, 1991; second edition 1999), Philosophy of Mind: An
overview for Cognitive Science (1988), and Philosophy of
Science: An Overview for Cognitive Science (1988).
George Graham is Professor and Chair of the Department of
Philosophy, and Professor of Psychology at the University of
Alabama at Birmingham. He is the co-author of Philosophy Then
and Now, with N. Scott Arnold and T. M. Benditt, (Blackwell,
1998), author of Philosophy of Mind (Blackwell 1993, second
edition 1998), and editor of Philosophical Psychopathology,
with G. L. Stephens, (1994), and Person to Person, with H.
LaFollette, (1989).