Introduction 1. The Landscape 2. When the Computer First Meets the Mind 3. The Early Shaping of Cognitive Science by Artificial Intelligence 4. Contending Philosophical Frameworks Within Artificial Intelligence 5. An Unexpected Renaissance Age 6. Humans, Machines, and Social Cognition 7. Towards the Hardest Things
Biography
Alessio Plebe received a degree in Electronic Engineering in 1981 from the University of Rome and a PhD degree in Philosophy of Language from the University of Palermo in 2004. He is Full Professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Cognitive Science of the University of Messina. His main research areas are neural computation, its epistemology, and its explanatory power for several cognitive functions. He has developed realistic neural models of visual object recognition, early language acquisition, and moral behaviour. Currently, he is researching the rise of deep learning, its causes and its impact on philosophy and cognitive science.
Pietro Perconti is Full Professor of Philosophy of Mind at the University of Messina, Italy, where he is also head of the Department of Cognitive Science. Perconti studied philosophy at the Universities of Palermo and Berlin (Freie Universität) and received a PhD in Philosophy of Language from the University of Palermo in 1996. His first book is devoted to history of ideas (Kantian Linguistics, 1999). Now his main research fields are social cognition, consciousness, and the social role of cognitive science.
