The future of the cognitive revolution
In 1990, Jerome Bruner suggested it was time to take stock of what is now referred to as the "cognitive revolution"--Not only to reasses its progress, but to review the dominant role artificial intelligence and computers came to play in it. This volume assembles several leading thinkers to address these questions, and many others that stem from them, in an attempt to examine psychology's and cognitive science's success at using computers to understand human mind and behavior. The "cognitive revolution" has, in many respects, been a watershed in our contemporary struggles to comprehend what is crucially significant about human beings. As a result of intellectual and technological innovations since World War II, theorists now possess a more powerfully insightful model for mind than was available in the past. Can we now save cognitive science's claim that the mind is analogous to computer software, or must we start from the beginning? In Reassessing the Cognitive Revolution, leading scholars from diverse fields of cognitive science - linguistics, psychology, neuropsychology, and philosophy - present their latest, carefully considered judgments about the future of this intellectual movement. Jerome Bruner, Noam Chomsky, Hilary Putnam, and Margaret Boden, among others, have written original chapters in a nontechnical style that can be enjoyed and understood by an interdisciplinary audience of psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, linguists, and cognitive scientists alike
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What is the purported discipline of cognitive science and why does it need to be reassessed at the present moment? The search for "Cognitive glue" / David Martel Johnson
Good old-fashioned cognitive science: Does it have a future? / David Martel Johnson
Language and cognition / Noam Chomshy
Functionalism: Cognitive science or science fiction? / Hilary Putnam
Reassessing the cognitive revolution / Stuart Shanker
Promise and achievement in cognitive science / Margaret Boden
Boden's Middle Way: Viable or not? / Carol Fleisher Feldman
Metasubjective processes: The missing Lingua Franca of cognitive science / Juan Pascual-Leone
Is cognitive science a discipline? / Don Ross
Anatomy of a revolution / Ellen Bialystok
Cognitive science and the study of language / Christina Erneling
Language from an internalist perspective / Noam Chomsky
The novelty of Chomsky's theories / Joseph Agassi
What have you done for us lately? Some recent perspectives on linguistic nativism / Christopher D. Green & John Vervaeke
Connectionism: A non-rule-following rival, or supplement to the traditonal approach / David Martel Johnson
From text to process: Connectionism's contribution to the future of cognitive science / Andy Clark
Embodied connectionism / William Bechtel
Neural networks and neuroscience: What are connectionist simulations good for for? / Sidney J. Segalowitz & Daniel Bernstein
Can Wittgenstein help free the mind from rules? The philosophical foundations of connectionism / Itiel E. Dror & Marcello Dascal
The dynamical alternative / Timothy van Gelder
The ecological alternative: Knowledge as sensitivity to objectively existing facts / David Martel Johnson
The future of cognitve science; An ecological analysis / Ulric Neisser
The cognitive revolution from an ecological point of view / Edward Reed
Challenges to cognitive science: The cultural approach / Christine Erneling
Will cognitive revolutions ever stop? / Jerome Bruner
Neural cartesianism: Comments on the epistemology of the cognitve sciences / Jeff Coulter
Language, action, and mind / Soren Stenlund
Cognition as a social practice: From computer power to word power / John Shotter
"Berkeleyan" arguments and the ontology of cognitive science / Rom Harre
Historical approaches / Christina Erneling
The mind considered from a historical perspective: Human cognitive phylogenesis and the possibility of continuing cognitive evolution / Merlin Donald
Taking the past seriously: How history shows that eliminativists' account of folk psychology is partly right and partly wrong / David Martel Johnson
Cognitive science and the future of psychology-challenges and opportunities / Christina Erneling
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