Mind as machine : a history of cognitive science /
Boden, Margaret A.,
Mind as machine : a history of cognitive science / Margaret A. Boden. - 2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting the scene -- Man as machine: origins of the idea -- Anticipatory engines -- Maybe minds are machines too -- Movements beneath the mantle -- Cognitive science comes together -- The rise of computational psychology -- The mystery of the missing discipline -- Transforming linguistics -- When GOFAI was NEWFAI -- Of bombs and bombshells -- Connectionism, its birth and renaissance -- Swimming alongside the kraken -- From neurophysiology to computational neuroscience -- A-life in embryo -- Philosophies of mind as machine -- What next? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
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 modelling its workings. Oxford University Press now presents a masterful history of cognitive science, told by one of its most eminent practitioners.
0199241449 9780199241446 019929237X 9780199292370 0199292388 9780199292387
2006011795
Cognitive science--History
BF311 / .B576 2006
153.09
Mind as machine : a history of cognitive science / Margaret A. Boden. - 2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting the scene -- Man as machine: origins of the idea -- Anticipatory engines -- Maybe minds are machines too -- Movements beneath the mantle -- Cognitive science comes together -- The rise of computational psychology -- The mystery of the missing discipline -- Transforming linguistics -- When GOFAI was NEWFAI -- Of bombs and bombshells -- Connectionism, its birth and renaissance -- Swimming alongside the kraken -- From neurophysiology to computational neuroscience -- A-life in embryo -- Philosophies of mind as machine -- What next? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
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 modelling its workings. Oxford University Press now presents a masterful history of cognitive science, told by one of its most eminent practitioners.
0199241449 9780199241446 019929237X 9780199292370 0199292388 9780199292387
2006011795
Cognitive science--History
BF311 / .B576 2006
153.09