Front Cover -- Preliminaries -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 0.1 In search of mind -- 0.2 The field of Cognitive Science, as treated in this book -- 0.3 History of Cognitive Science -- 0.4 Topics treated -- 0.5 User's guide to this book -- 0.6 Further Reading -- PART I - THE CONSTITUENT DISCIPLINES OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE -- 1. Philosophical Epistemology -- Glossary -- 1.0 What is Philosophical Epistemology? -- 1.1 The reduced history of Western Philosophy, Part I - The Classical Age -- 1.1.1 Scholasticism and the first stirrings of Modernity - Thomas Aquinas -- 1.1.2 Descartes: the first Modern? -- 1.1.3 British Empiricism -- 1.1.4 Immanuel Kant -- 1.2 Mind and World, Part I - The problem of objectivity -- 1.3 The reduced history of Philosophy, Part II - The twentieth century -- 1.3.1 The Continental School -- 1.3.2 Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- 1.3.3 The Analytic School: The Campaign to clean up Philosophy -- 1.4 The philosophy of Cognitive Science -- 1.4.1 Materialism or Dualism? -- 1.4.2 In Search of Mind (II) -- 1.4.3 Autism, egocentrism and intersubjectivity -- 1.4.4 Some current controversies in Cognitive Science -- 1.4.5 Fodor and Modularity -- 1.5 Mind in Philosophy: summary -- 1.6 The Nolanian Framework (so far) -- Further Reading -- 2. Psychology -- 2.0 Why is Psychology so difficult? -- 2.1 A brief history of Experimental Psychology -- 2.1.1 Psychophysics and Behaviour -- 2.1.2 Phenomenological Psychology -- 2.1.3 Cognitive Psychology -- 2.1.4 Depth Psychology -- 2.1.5 Interlude: the framework here -- 2.2 Methodologies in Psychology -- 2.3 Perception -- 2.3.1 Perception and Cognition -- 2.3.2 Transduction and Encoding -- 2.3.3 Ecological Optics -- 2.3.4 The Gestalt approach -- 2.3.5 The constructionist approach -- 2.4 Memory -- 2.4.1 Memory as a store -- 2.4.2 Memory and Learning -- 2.4.3 Memory and Problem-solving.

2.4.4 Memory and Forgetting -- 2.5 Mind in Psychology -- Further Reading -- 3. Linguistics -- Introduction -- 3.1 Why Linguistics? -- 3.2 Computation and Linguistics -- 3.3 The main grammatical theories -- 3.3.1 The Chomskyan Revolution -- 3.3.2 The Counter-revolution -- 3.4 Language Development and Linguistics -- 3.4.1 Thought and Language -- 3.4.2 The evidence from child development -- 3.5 Toward a definition of context -- 3.5.1 Transitions and syntax -- 3.6 The multifarious uses of Language -- 3.7 Linguistics and Computational Linguistics -- 3.7.1 Applied Computational Linguistics -- 3.7.2 Philosophy of Language (reprise) -- 3.7.3 Theory of linguistic computation -- 3.7.4 Cognitive Psychology and Computational Linguistics -- 3.7.5 The Active NLP movement -- 3.8 Language and other symbol systems -- 3.9 On the notion of context -- 3.10 Mind in Linguistics: summary -- Further Reading -- 4. Neuroscience -- The constituent disciplines of Neuroscience -- 4.1 The Methodology of Neuroscience -- 4.1.1 Lesioning -- 4.1.2 Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) -- 4.1.3 EEG -- 4.1.4 Other techniques -- 4.1.5 Counting -- 4.1.6 Double dissociation -- 4.2 Gross Neuroanatomy -- 4.2.1 One brain or two? -- 4.2.4 Neural epigenesis and evolution -- 4.2.5 Gross Neuroanatomy itself -- 4.3 Some relevant findings -- 4.3.1 Realism and Cerebral Functioning -- 4.3.2 Mylesianism and cerebral functioning -- 4.3.3 Cerebral functioning: globalizations and localizations -- 4.4 Connectionism (PDP) -- 4.4.1 Connectionism as experimental neuroscience -- 4.4.2 Parallel distributed processing as tacit knowing -- 4.4.3 PDP as Computer Science -- 4.4.3.1 History of PDP as a Computing Paradigm -- 4.5 The victory of Neuroscience? -- 4.5.1 The work of Gerald Edelman -- 4.5.2 Recent developments -- 4.6 Mind in Neuroscience: summary -- 4.7 Further Reading.

5. Artificial Intelligence -- Introduction -- 5.1 AI and Cognitive Science -- 5.1.1 What is AI? -- 5.1.2 The reduced history of AI -- 5.1.3 Foundational issues: Cognitive Science and Computation -- 5.2 Skeptics and their techniques -- 5.2.1 Ludwig Wittgenstein and Slot-Assertions -- 5.2.2 Edmund Husserl and frames -- 5.2.3 Alan Turing and Computability -- 5.2.4 Gödel, completeness and decidability -- 5.2.5 The Chomsky Hierarchy -- 5.2.6 Roger Penrose and the last Emperor -- 5.2.7 Terry Winograd -- 5.2.8 Bayes and Probabilistic Reasoning -- 5.2.9 David Marr and the syntax of vision -- 5.2.10 Myles and Post-Modernism -- 5.2.11 What would Descartes think of being called a skeptic? -- 5.3 AI as Computer Science -- 5.4 AI as software -- 5.4.1 NLP -- 5.4.2 Expert Systems -- 5.4.3 Vision -- 5.4.4 The Frame Problem -- 5.4.5 PDP as AI -- 5.4.6 Summary -- 5.4.7 The recent history of AI -- 5.5 The current methodological debate -- 5.5.1 Bateson's cybernetic approach to mind -- 5.6 Context, syntax and semantics -- 5.7 Mind in AI -- 5.8 Texts on AI -- 6. Ethology and Ethnoscience -- 6.1 Ethology -- 6.1.1 Can Ethology explain everything? -- 6.1.2 Ethology and learning mechanisms -- 6.1.3 Mind in ethology -- 6.2 Ethnoscience -- 6.2.1 Ethnography and anthropology -- 6.2.2 Cross-cultural cognition -- 6.3 Mind in Ethology and Ethnoscience -- 6.4 Further Reading -- PART II - A NEW FOUNDATION FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE -- Introduction -- 7. Symbol Systems -- 7.1 Characteristics of symbol systems -- 7.2 Context and the layers of symbol systems -- 7.3 Mind and symbol systems -- 7.4 Further reading -- 8. Consciousness and Selfhood -- Introduction -- 8.1 Cognitive views -- 8.1.2 Computational theories of Consciousness -- 8.1.2.1 Consciousness as an operating system -- 8.1.3 A Mathematical view of Consciousness -- 8.1.4 Summary -- 8.2. What is at stake?.

8.3 Consciousness as treated in Philosophy -- 8.3.1 Analytic philosophers discuss consciousness! -- 8.3.2 … As does everyone else -- 8.4 The Development of Selfhood -- 8.4.1 The paradoxical nature of selfhood -- 8.4.2 The origins of selfhood -- 8.4.3 An alternative perspective: the self and its world -- 8.5 The minimal requirements for this theory -- 8.5.1 The essential constructs -- 8.5.2 Toward a new vocabulary -- 8.5.3 Summary -- 8.6 Self as a filter -- 8.7 Self and motivation -- 8.8 Conclusions -- 8.9 Recent developments -- 8.10 Further reading -- 9. Cognitive Science and the Search for Mind -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Review -- 9.3 A theory of Mind anyone? -- 9.4 Foundational considerations -- 9.5 Coda: the Nolanian Framework -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Back Cover - Book Description.