Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
1 What’s in your mind? 1
Zenon W. Pylyshyn
2 Explaining the infant’s object concept: Beyond the
perception/cognition dichotomy 26
Brian J. Scholl and Alan M. Leslie
3 Rethinking rationality: From bleak implications to Darwinian
modules 74
Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich, and Patrice D. Tremoulet
4 New foundations for perception 121
Michael Leyton
5 Object representation and recognition 172
Sven J. Dickinson
6 Does vision work? Towards a semantics of perception 208
Jacob Feldman
7 The brain as a hypothesis-constructing-and-testing agent
230
Thomas V. Papathomas
8 What movements of the eye tell us about the mind 248
Eileen Kowler
9 Visual dilemmas: Competition between eyes and between percepts
in binocular rivalry 263
Thomas V. Papathomas, Ilona Kovacs, Akos Feher, and Bela Julesz
10 Linguistic and cognitive explanation in optimality theory
295
Bruce Tesar, Jane Grimshaw, and Alan Prince
11 Impossible words? 327
Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore
12 Bridging the symbolic-connectionist gap in language
comprehension 336
Suzanne Stevenson
13 Cognitive and neural aspects of language acquisitions 356
Karin Stromswold
14 Connectionist neuroscience: representational and learning
issues for neuroscience 401
Stephen Jose Hanson
Index 429
Ernest Lepore is Director of the Centre for Cognitive
Science at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous
articles in philosophy of mind and is co-author (with Jerry Fodor)
of Holism (Blackwell 1991). He is editor of Truth and
Interpretation (Blackwell 1989) and co-editor (with Robert Van
Gulick) of John Searle and His Critics (Blackwell 1992), as well as
general editor of the series "Philosophers and Their Critics", also
published by Blackwell.
Zenon Pylyshyn joined the faculty of Rutgers University as Board of Governors Professor of Cognitive Science and Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science in 1994. Pylyshyn has published over 60 scientific articles and book chapters, including a paper designated as a Science Citation Classic, What the Mind's Eye Tells the Mind's Brain, Psychological Bulletin, (1973). He is on the editorial boards of eight scientific journals and on the International Scientific Advisory Board of the BC Advanced Systems Institute.
"Many of the authors are major academic figures (e.g., Fodor,
Pylyshyn, Stich), and all are authoritative in their fields. The
book, taken as a whole, conveys some of the excitement going on
today in cognitive science. Recommended." C. Koch, Choice
"Having been based on a lecture series that brought together some
of the most innovative research in the field, this collection will
work superbly as an introductory text. Aimed at a diverse audience,
the issues are given a systematic presentation with technical
concepts introduced both gradually and precisely. Lepore and
Pylyshyn's edition serves as a quite complete and provocative path
of entry into the science of the mind." David Kilfoyle, York
University, Canada
"An excellent collection of chapters by very talented investigators
who truly understand the mission of cognitive science." -- Rochel
Gelman, Rutgers University
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