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Meaning and Cognitive Structure Issues in the Computational Theory of Mind
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Edited by Zenon W. Pylyshyn and William Demopoulos
ISBN: 0-89391-372-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-89391-372-4
Ablex Publishing
Publication: 1/1/1986
List Price: $145.00 (UK Sterling Price: £80.00)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Description: Few areas of study have led to such close and intense interactions among computer scientists, psychologists, and philosophers as the area now referred to as cognitive science. Within this discipline, few problems have inspired as much debate as the use of notions such as "meaning," "intentionality," or the "semantic content of mental states" in explaining human behavior. The set of problems surrounding these notions have been viewed by some observers as threatening the foundations of cognitive science as currently conceived, and by others as providing a new and scientifically sound formulation of certain classical problems in the philosophy of mind. The chapters in this volume help bridge the gap among contributing disciplines-computer science, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience-and discuss the problems posed from various perspectives.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • PART I: POSITION PAPERS AND COMMENTARIES
  • The Modularity of Mind, Jerry Fodor
  • Commentary: Modules and Central Databases, Scott E. Fahlman
  • Commentary: Modules and Language Abnormalities, David Caplan
  • The Symbol Level and the Knowledge Level, Allen Newell
  • Commentary: The Link from Symbols to Knowledge, Brian Smith
  • Is There an Autonomous "Knowledge Level"?, Daniel Dennett
  • Problems in Procedural Semantics, William A. Woods
  • Commentary: How Can a Symbol "Mean" Something?, John Haugeland
  • Commentary: Understanding without Knowing How to Behave, Janet Fodor
  • Computational Psychology and Interpretation Theory, Hilary Putnam. Does Psychology Need Meanings?, Michael R. Lipton
  • Does Psychology Need Exact Semantics?, Robert J. Matthews
  • PART II: WORKSHOPS
  • Session 1: Modularity of Mind
  • Session 2: The Symbol Level and the Knowledge Level
  • Session 3: Problems in Procedural Semantics
  • Session 4: Computational Psychology and Interpretation Theory
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index
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