1st Edition

Language and Meaning in Cognitive Science Cognitive Issues and Semantic theory

Edited By Andy Clark, Josefa Toribio Copyright 1998
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

Summarizes and illuminates two decades of research Gathering important papers by both philosophers and scientists, this collection illuminates the central themes that have arisen during the last two decades of work on the conceptual foundations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Each volume begins with a comprehensive introduction that places the coverage in a broader perspective... Read more
Introduction, The Nature of Language, On the Nature, Use and Acquisition of Language, Magic Words: How Language Augments Human Computation, Rules of Language, Language and Computation, Can Machines Think?, Understanding Understanding: Syntactic Semantics and Computational Cognition, Understanding Natural Language, Language and Experience, Individualism, Computation, and Perceptual Content, Externalist Explanation, Ecological Content, Naturalized Semantics, Advertisement for a Semantics for Psychology, Putting Information to Work, Biosemantics, Acknowledgments

Biography

Andy Clark, Josefa Toribio