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Mental Models

Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness

By: Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

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Mental Models

Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness

By: Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

This book offers a unified theory of the major propertries of mind, including comprehension, inference, and consciousness. The author argues that we apprehend the world by building inner mental replicas of the relationships among objects and events that concern us. The mind is essentially a model-building device that can itself be modeled on a computer. The book provides a blueprint for building such a model and numberous important illustrations of how to do it.

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0674568826

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9780674568822

The Computer and the Mind

An Introduction to Cognitive Science

By: Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

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The Computer and the Mind

An Introduction to Cognitive Science

By: Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

In a field choked with seemingly impenetrable jargon, Philip N. Johnson-Laird has done the impossible: written a book about how the mind works that requires no advance knowledge of artificial intelligence, neurophysiology, or psychology. The mind, he says, depends on the brain in the same way as the execution of a program of symbolic instructions depends on a computer, and can thus be understood by anyone willing to start with basic principles of computation and follow his step-by-step explanations. The author begins with a brief account of the history of psychology and the birth of cognitive science after World War II. He then describes clearly and simply the nature of symbols and the theory of computation, and follows with sections devoted to current computational models of how the mind carries out all its major tasks, including visual perception, learning, memory, the planning and control of actions, deductive and inductive reasoning, and the formation of new concepts and new ideas. Other sections discuss human communication, meaning, the progress that has been made in enabling computers to understand natural language, and finally the difficult problems of the conscious and unconscious mind, free will, needs and emotions, and self-awareness. In an envoi, the author responds to the critics of cognitive science and defends the computational view of the mind as an alternative to traditional dualism: cognitive science integrates mind and matter within the same explanatory framework. This first single-authored introduction to cognitive science will command the attention of students of cognitive science at all levels including psychologists, linguists, computer scientists, philosophers, and neuroscientists--as well as all readers curious about recent knowledge on how the mind works.

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0674156161

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9780674156166

Psychology of Reasoning

Structure and Content

By: Peter Cathcart Wason,Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

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Psychology of Reasoning

Structure and Content

By: Peter Cathcart Wason,Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

At the core of the "Psychology of Reasoning" is a vigorous discussion that incorporates various illustrations--some of them humorous, all of them fascinating--of the use of reason under a wide variety of different conditions. Particular emphasis is placed on the difficulties involved in dealing with negatively marked information that must be combined and used with other information for reaching conclusions. Thorough treatment is given as well to the search for plausible contexts that will render anomalous or ambiguous statements "sensible.

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0674721276

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9780674721272

How We Reason

By: Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

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How We Reason

By: Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

Good reasoning can lead to success; bad reasoning can lead to catastrophe. Yet, it's not obvious how we reason, and why we make mistakes. This book looks at the mental processes that underlie our reasoning. It provides the most accessible account yet of the science of reasoning.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198569769

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9780198569763

Human and Machine Thinking

By: Philip N. Johnson-Laird

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Human and Machine Thinking

By: Philip N. Johnson-Laird

This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind -- psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, linguists, and other cognitive scientists -- it also provides general readers with a self-contained account of human and machine thinking. The author presents his point of view, rather than a review, as simply as possible so that no technical background is required. Like the field of research itself, it calls for hard thinking about thinking.

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Psychology Press

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1135440379

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Mental Models

Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness

By: Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

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Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness

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Mental Models in Cognitive Science

Essays in Honour of Phil Johnson-Laird

By: Jane Oakhill

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Mental Models in Cognitive Science

Essays in Honour of Phil Johnson-Laird

By: Jane Oakhill

This book, to be published on the occasion of Phil Johnson-Laird's sixtieth birthday, provides an overview of the current state of mental models research. It also reflects Phil's influence on the development of cognitive science at a more personal level. The authors include some of Phil's most distinguished collaborators and the majority of his former graduate students, many of whom are now eminent psychologists in their own right.

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Psychology Press

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0863774482

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Psychology of Reasoning

Structure and Content

By: Peter Cathcart Wason,Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

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By: Peter Cathcart Wason,Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

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Mental Models

Mental Models

The Computer and the Mind

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Psychology of Reasoning

Psychology of Reasoning

How We Reason

How We Reason

Human and Machine Thinking

Human and Machine Thinking

Mental Models

Mental Models

Mental Models in Cognitive Science

Mental Models in Cognitive Science

Psychology of Reasoning

Psychology of Reasoning

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