Models and Cognition - Couverture rigide

Waskan, Jonathan A.

 
9780262232548: Models and Cognition
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0262232545 ISBN 13 : 9780262232548
Editeur : Bradford Books, 2006

Synopsis

A groundbreaking argument challenging the traditional linguistic representational model of cognition proposes that representational states should be conceptualized as the cognitive equivalent of scale models.

In this groundbreaking book, Jonathan Waskan challenges cognitive science's dominant model of mental representation and proposes a novel, well-devised alternative. The traditional view in the cognitive sciences uses a linguistic (propositional) model of mental representation. This logic-based model of cognition informs and constrains both the classical tradition of artificial intelligence and modeling in the connectionist tradition. It falls short, however, when confronted by the frame problem—the lack of a principled way to determine which features of a representation must be updated when new information becomes available. Proposed alternatives, including the imagistic model, have not so far resolved this problem. Waskan proposes instead the Intrinsic Cognitive Models (ICM) hypothesis, which argues that representational states can be conceptualized as the cognitive equivalent of scale models.

Waskan argues further that the proposal that humans harbor and manipulate these cognitive counterparts to scale models offers the only viable explanation for what most clearly differentiates humans from other creatures: their capacity to engage in truth-preserving manipulation of representations.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan A. Waskan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a member of the Beckman Institute Cognitive Science Group.

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Éditeur
Bradford Books
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262232545
ISBN 13 
9780262232548
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
344
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780262517546: Models and Cognition

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  026251754X ISBN 13 :  9780262517546
Editeur : MIT Press, 2012
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