Minds, Brains, and Computers

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Part I: The Mind as Computer: Introduction.

Part II: The Mind as Neural Network: Introduction.

Part III: The Mind as Brain: Introduction.

Part IV: Special Topics: Introduction.

Index.

"This anthology features papers that are historically important to cognitive science, giving about equal billing to symbolic, connectionist, and neuroscience viewpoints. Although the papers convey some key findings, their strong point is clarifying assumptions that underlie these three perspectives. Students will find this a valuable sourcebook for the major research traditions." Lance Rips, Northwestern University

Robert Cummins is Professor of Philosophy at the University
of California, Davis. He is the author of The Nature of
Psychological Explanation (1983), Meaning and Mental
Representation (1987), and Representations, Targets and
Attitudes (1996), as well as many articles and several edited
volumes. He specializes in the foundations of cognitive science and
the nature of mental representation.

Denise D. Cummins is Associate Research Professor of
Social Sciences at the University of California, Davis. She is the
author of The Other Side of Psychology (1995), The
Evolution of Mind (ed. with Colin Allen), and Human
Reasoning: an Evolutionary Perspective as well as numerous
articles and reviews. She specializes in higher cognition from an
evolutionary perspective.

R. M. Cummins, University of Arizona; D. D. Cummins, University of California at Davis