The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science

by Margolis, Eric; Samuels, Richard; Stich, Stephen P.

• ISBN13: 9780190846213
• ISBN10: 0190846216
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-08-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The philosophy of cognitive science is concerned with fundamental philosophical and theoretical questions connected to the sciences of the mind. How does the brain give rise to conscious experience? Does speaking a language change how we think? Is a genuinely intelligent computer possible? What features of the mind are innate? Advances in cognitive science have given philosophers important tools for addressing these sorts of questions; and cognitive scientists have, in turn, found themselves drawing upon insights from philosophy-insights that have often taken their research in novel directions. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science brings together twenty-one newly commissioned chapters by leading researchers in this rich and fast-growing area of philosophy. It is an indispensible resource for anyone who seeks to understand the implications of cognitive science for philosophy, and the role of philosophy within cognitive science.

Author Biography

Eric Margolis is Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Richard Samuels is Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University.
Stephen Stich is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Richard Samuels, Eric Margolis, and Stephen P. Stich
2. Consciousness and Cognition, Robert Van Gulick
3. Reasoning and Rationality, Collin Allen, Peter M. Todd, and Jonathan M. Weinberg
4. Massive Modularity, Richard Samuels
5. Perception and Multimodality, Casey O'Callaghan
6. Embodied Cognition, Lawrence A. Shapiro
7. Artificial Intelligence, B. Jack Copeland & Diane Proudfoot
8. Emotions: How Many Are Three?, Jesse J. Prinz
9. Attention, Christopher Mole
10. Computationalism, Gualtiero Piccinini
11. Representationalism, Frances Egan
12. Cognition and the Brain, Rick Grush and Lisa Damm
13. The Scope of the Conceptual, Stephen Laurence and Eric Margolis
14. Innateness, Steven Gross & Georges Rey
15. The Language Faculty, Paul Pietroski and Stephen Crain
16. Language in Cognition, Peter Carruthers
17. Theory of Mind, Alvin I. Goldman
18. Broadminded: Sociality and the Cognitive Science of Morality, John M. Doris and Shaun Nichols
19. Conceptual Development: The Case of Essentialism, Susan A. Gelman and Elizabeth Ware
20. Evolutionary Psychology, Ben Jeffares and Kim Sterelny
21. Culture and Cognition, Daniel M.T. Fessler and Edouard Machery
22. Experimental Philosophy, Joshua Knobe