Image from Coce

Mind as machine : a history of cognitive science / Margaret A. Boden.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006Description: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199241449
  • 9780199241446
  • 019929237X
  • 9780199292370
  • 0199292388
  • 9780199292387
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153.09 22
LOC classification:
  • BF311 .B576 2006
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?
Summary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 153.09 BOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Vol. 1 1 Available A426687B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 153.09 BOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Vol. 2 1 Available A426688B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?

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.

Machine converted from AACR2 source record.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha