The Search for a Theory of Cognition: Early Mechanisms and New Ideas 9042034270, 9789042034273

The book brings into relief the variety of approaches and disciplines that have informed the quest for a theory of cogni

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English Pages 408 [397] Year 2011

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION On the Historical Dynamics of Cognitive Science:
a View from the Periphery
Part I: The cybernetic suburb
ONE Life, Death, and Resurrection of the Homeostat
TWO The Ontology of the Enemy:
Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision
THREE Computers as Models of the Mind: On Simulations,
Brains, and the Design of Computers
Part II: AI's peripheries
FOUR At the Periphery of the Rising Empire:
the Case of Italy (1945-1968)
FIVE Processing Cultures: "Structuralism" in the History of
Artificial Intelligence
SIX Artificial Intelligence With a National Face: American
and Soviet Cultural Metaphors for Thought
Part III: Margins of computations
SEVEN The Cartesian-Leibnizian Turing Test
EIGHT Turing Computability and
Leibniz Computability
NINE Logical Instruments: Regular Expressions, AI,
and Thinking about Thinking
Part IV: At the thresholds of computability
TEN Gödel, Nagel, Minds, and Machines
ELEVEN Entangling Effective Procedures:
From Logic Machines to Quantum Automata
TWELVE Turing 1948 vs. Gödel 1972
Works Cited
Index
About the Contributors

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THE SEARCH FOR A THEORY OF COGNITION

VIBS Volume 238 Robert Ginsberg Founding Editor Leonidas Donskis Executive Editor Associate Editors G. John M. Abbarno George Allan Gerhold K. Becker Raymond Angelo Belliotti Kenneth A. Bryson C. Stephen Byrum Robert A. Delfino Rem B. Edwards Malcolm D. Evans Roland Faber Andrew Fitz-Gibbon Francesc Forn i Argimon Daniel B. Gallagher William C. Gay Dane R. Gordon J. Everet Green Heta Aleksandra Gylling Matti Häyry Brian G. Henning

Steven V. Hicks Richard T. Hull Michael Krausz Olli Loukola Mark Letteri Vincent L. Luizzi Adrianne McEvoy J.D. Mininger Peter A. Redpath Arleen L. F. Salles John R. Shook Eddy Souffrant Tuija Takala Emil Višňovský Anne Waters James R. Watson John R. Welch Thomas Woods

a volume in Cognitive Science CS Francesc Forn i Argimon, Editor

THE SEARCH FOR A THEORY OF COGNITION Early Mechanisms and New Ideas

Edited by

Stefano Franchi and Francesco Bianchini

Amsterdam - New York, NY 2011

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