Cognition Through Understanding

Author : Tyler Burge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199672024
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognition Through Understanding written by Tyler Burge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognition Through Understanding presents a selection of Tyler Burge's essays on cognition, thought, and language. The essays collected here use epistemology as a way of interpreting underlying powers of mind, and focus on four types of cognition that are warranted through understanding: self-knowledge, interlocution, reasoning, and reflection.

Author : Shannon Spaulding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315396041
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How We Understand Others written by Shannon Spaulding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our everyday social interactions, we try to make sense of what people are thinking, why they act as they do, and what they are likely to do next. This process is called mindreading. Mindreading, Shannon Spaulding argues in this book, is central to our ability to understand and interact with others. Philosophers and cognitive scientists have converged on the idea that mindreading involves theorizing about and simulating others’ mental states. She argues that this view of mindreading is limiting and outdated. Most contemporary views of mindreading vastly underrepresent the diversity and complexity of mindreading. She articulates a new theory of mindreading that takes into account cutting edge philosophical and empirical research on in-group/out-group dynamics, social biases, and how our goals and the situational context influence how we interpret others’ behavior. Spaulding's resulting theory of mindreading provides a more accurate, comprehensive, and perhaps pessimistic view of our abilities to understand others, with important epistemological and ethical implications. Deciding who is trustworthy, knowledgeable, and competent are epistemically and ethically fraught judgments: her new theory of mindreading sheds light on how these judgments are made and the conditions under which they are unreliable. This book will be of great interest to students of philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, applied epistemology, cognitive science and moral psychology, as well as those interested in conceptual issues in psychology.

Author : David L. Hamilton
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1529742366
Total Pages : 1051 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Cognition written by David L. Hamilton and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 1051 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social cognition is an approach to understanding how people think about people and events. We are constantly processing information to navigate the world we live in. The authors will guide your students, using examples and up-to-date studies, through this approach; from explaining the processes themselves right through to demonstrating the role cognitive processes play in our social lives. With chapters on the following processes: · Memory · Judgement · Attention · Attribution · Evaluation · Automatic processing. This book will provide your students with a framework for understanding the most common areas of interest for Social Cognition, such as perception, attitudes and stereotyping.

Author : Terry Winograd
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780201112979
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Computers and Cognition written by Terry Winograd and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 1987 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Computers and Cognition presents an important and controversial new approach to understanding what computers do and how their functioning is related to human language, thought, and action. While it is a book about computers, Understanding Computers and Cognition goes beyond the specific issues of what computers can or can't do. It is a broad-ranging discussion exploring the background of understanding in which the discourse about computers and technology takes place. Understanding Computers and Cognition is written for a wide audience, not just those professionals involved in computer design or artificial intelligence. It represents an important contribution to the ongoing discussion about what it means to be a machine, and what it means to be human. Book jacket.

Author : Peter J. Hampson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631157519
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Cognition written by Peter J. Hampson and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1996-01-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Cognition d provides a lively, accessible and thorough introduction to this exciting and rapidly developing brannch of psychology. It is intended primarily for first year undergraduates, and for pre-degree students who seek a deeper appreciation of contemporary cognitive psychology. The book is divided into three sections, which cover: the major structures, processing systems and mental operations involved in memory, perception, attention, skills and language; cognition in action; and approaches to modelling cognition, including cognitive neuropsychology and connectionist approaches. Learning is supported throughout through the inclusion of reading lists, discussion questions, activities and case studies.

Author : Tyler Burge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192644319
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perception: First Form of Mind written by Tyler Burge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Perception: First Form of Mind, Tyler Burge develops an understanding of the most primitive type of mental representational: perception. Focusing on the functions and capacities of perceptual states, Burge accounts for their representational content and structure, and develops a formal semantics for them. The discussion explains the role of iconic format in the structure. It also situates the accounts of content, structure, and semantics within scientific explanations of perceptual-state formation, emphasizing formation of perceptual categorization. In the book's second half, Burge discusses what a perceptual system is. Exploration of relations between perception and other primitive capacities-conation, attention, memory, anticipation, affect, learning, and imagining-helps distinguish perceiving, with its associated capacities, from thinking, with its associated capacities. Drawing mainly on vision science, not introspection, Perception: First Form of Mind is a rigorous, agenda-setting work in philosophy of perception and philosophy of science.

Author : Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Tyler Burge
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780199278534
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth, Thought, Reason written by Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Tyler Burge and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frege (1991) -- The concept of truth in Frege's program (1984) -- Frege on truth (1986) -- Postscript to "Frege on truth" (2004) -- Frege and the hierarchy (1979) -- Postscript to "Frege and the hierarchy" (2004) -- Sinning against Frege (1979) -- Postscript to "Sinning against Frege" (2003) -- Frege on sense and linguistic meaning (1990) -- Frege on extensions of concepts, from 1884 to 1903 (1984) -- Frege on knowing the third realm (1992) -- Frege on knowing the foundation (1998) -- Frege on apriority (2000) -- Postscript to "Frege on apriority" (2003).

Author : John E. Dowling
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393712575
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Brain written by John E. Dowling and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of what makes us human and unique among all creatures—our brains. No reader curious about our “little grey cells” will want to pass up Harvard neuroscientist John E. Dowling’s brief introduction to the brain. In this up-to-date revision of his 1998 book Creating Mind, Dowling conveys the essence and vitality of the field of neuroscience—examining the progress we’ve made in understanding how brains work, and shedding light on discoveries having to do with aging, mental illness, and brain health. The first half of the book provides the nuts-and-bolts necessary for an up-to-date understanding of the brain. Covering the general organization of the brain, early chapters explain how cells communicate with one another to enable us to experience the world. The rest of the book touches on higher-level concepts such as vision, perception, language, memory, emotion, and consciousness. Beautifully illustrated and lucidly written, this introduction elegantly reveals the beauty of the organ that makes us uniquely human.

Author : Gigi Luk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027252823
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Language and Cognition through Bilingualism written by Gigi Luk and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingualism is a ubiquitous global phenomenon. Beyond being a language experience, bilingualism also entails a social experience, and it interacts with development and learning, with cognitive and neural consequences across the lifespan. The authors of this volume are world renowned experts across several subdisciplines including linguistics, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. They bring to light bilingualism’s cognitive, developmental, and neural consequences in children, young adults, and older adults. This book honors Ellen Bialystok, and highlights her profound impact on the field of bilingualism research as a lifelong experience. The chapters are organized into four sections: The first section explores the complexity of the bilingual experience beyond the common characterization of “speaking multiple languages.” The next section showcases Ellen Bialystok’s earlier impact on psychology and education; here the contributors answer the question “how does being bilingual shape children’s development?” The third section explores cognitive and neuroscientific theories describing how language experience modulates cognition, behavior, and brain structures and functions. The final section shifts the focus to the impact of bilingualism on healthy and abnormal aging and asks whether being bilingual can stave off the effects of dementia by conferring a “cognitive reserve.”

Author : Patrick R. Frierson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032652
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Empirical Psychology written by Patrick R. Frierson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English-language book to examine Kant's empirical psychology, applying it throughout Kant's philosophy and to contemporary philosophical issues.