Octavo. Black cloth covered boards and spine with shiny silver lettering on the spine. Very slight bump at the head and tail of the spine. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 323 pages. Dust Jacket - has no discernable flaws.

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Titel: Models and Cognition
Verlag: Bradford Books / The MIT Press, Cambridge
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0262232545
ISBN-13: 9780262232548
Einband: Hard Cover
Auflage: First Edition, First Printing.
Zustand: NF
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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In this groundbreaking book, Jonathan Waskan challenges cognitive science's dominant model of mental representation and proposes a novel, well-devised alternative. The traditional view in the cognitive sciences uses a linguistic (propositional) model of mental representation. This logic-based model of cognition informs and constrains both the classical tradition of artificial intelligence and modeling in the connectionist tradition. It falls short, however, when confronted by the frame problem--the lack of a principled way to determine which features of a representation must be updated when new information becomes available. Proposed alternatives, including the imagistic model, have not so far resolved this problem. Waskan proposes instead the Intrinsic Cognitive Models (ICM) hypothesis, which argues that representational states can be conceptualized as the cognitive equivalent of scale models. Waskan argues further that the proposal that humans harbor and manipulate these cognitive counterparts to scale models offers the only viable explanation for what most clearly differentiates humans from other creatures: their capacity to engage in truth-preserving manipulation of representations.

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Jonathan A. Waskan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a member of the Beckman Institute Cognitive Science Group.

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