Mind, Body, World:
Foundations of Cognitive Science
Michael R. W. Dawson
Cognitive science arose
in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including
psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting.
Perhaps owing to the field’s immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to
the foundational assumption that cognition is information processing, cognitive
science initially seemed more unified than psychology. However, as a result of
differing interpretations of the foundational assumption and dramatically
divergent views of the meaning of the term information processing, three
separate schools emerged: classical cognitive science, connectionist cognitive
science, and embodied cognitive science. Examples, cases, and research findings
taken from the wide range of phenomena studied by cognitive scientists
effectively explain and explore the relationship among the three perspectives.
Intended to introduce both graduate and senior undergraduate students to the
foundations of cognitive science, Mind, Body, World addresses a number of
questions currently being asked by those practicing in the field: What are the
core assumptions of the three different schools? What are the relationships
between these different sets of core assumptions? Is there only one cognitive
science, or are there many different cognitive sciences? Giving the schools
equal treatment and displaying a broad and deep understanding of the field,
Dawson highlights the fundamental tensions and lines of fragmentation that
exist among the schools and provides a refreshing and unifying framework for
students of cognitive science.
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Author(s)
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Michael R. W. Dawson
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Place of Publication
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Canada
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Publisher
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Athabasca University
Press
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Publication year
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2013
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Series
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OPEL (Open Paths to
Enriched Learning)
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Total pages
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506
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Language
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English
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