Mind as machine : a history of cognitive science / Margaret A. Boden.
The development of cognitive science is one of the most remarkable and fascinating intellectual achievements of the modern era. It brings together psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, computing, philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology in the project of understanding the mind by mode...
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Setting the scene
- 2. Man as machine: origins of the idea
- 3. Anticipatory engines
- 4. Maybe minds are machines too
- 5. Movements beneath the mantle
- 6. Cognitive science comes together
- 7. The rise of computational psychology
- 8. The mystery of the missing discipline
- 9. Transforming linguistics
- 10. When GOFAI was NEWFAI
- 11. Of bombs and bombshells
- 12. Connectionism, its birth and renaissance
- 13. Swimming alongside the kraken
- 14. From neurophysiology to computational neuroscience
- 15. A-life in embryo
- 16. Philosophies of mind as machine
- 17. What next?