The human semantic potential: Spatial language and constrained connectionism: By T. Regier. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (1996). 220 pages. $37.50

• Book ID: 104353195
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 79 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0898-1221
• DOI: 10.1016/s0898-1221(97)90057-2

✦ Synopsis

Contents:

Preface. 1. Introduction and overview. 2. The fundamental assumptions of classical cognitive science. 3. What is wrong with classical cognitive science. 4. Cognitive systems as dynamical systems: A nonclassical framework for cognitive science. 5. Why there still has to be a language of thought, and what that means. 6. Mental causation without rules. 7. Standard-conception laws and soft laws. 8. Soft laws and psychological explanation. 9. Noncomputable dynamical cognition. Notes. References. Index.