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" Existential cognition : "
Ron McClamrock.
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625350
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McClamrock, Ronald Albert.
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Existential cognition : : computational minds in the world /\ Ron McClamrock.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 1995.
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ix, 205 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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0226556417 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780226556413 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-201) and index.
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Ch. 1. Autonomy and Implementation -- Ch. 2. Context, Taxonomy, and Mechanism -- Ch. 3. Picking Levels -- Ch. 4. The Frame Problems -- Ch. 5. Boundedness and Contingency -- Ch. 6. Exploiting the Environment -- Ch. 7. Interactive Decomposition -- Ch. 8. Embedded Language -- Ch. 9. Interactive Perception -- Ch. 10. Intentionality and Its Objects -- Ch. 11. The Autonomy of Subjectivity -- Ch. 12. Existential Cognition.
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While the notion of the mind as information-processor - a kind of computational system - is widely accepted, many scientists and philosophers have assumed that this account of cognition shows that the mind's operations are characterizable independent of their relationship to the external world. Existential Cognition challenges the internalist view of mind, arguing that intelligence, thought, and action cannot be understood in isolation, but only in interaction with the outside world.
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Arguing that the mind is essentially embedded in the external world, Ron McClamrock provides a schema that allows cognitive scientists to address such long-standing problems in artificial intelligence as the "frame" problem and the issue of "bounded" rationality. Extending this schema to cover progress in other studies of behavior, including language, vision, and action, McClamrock reinterprets the importance of the organism/environment distinction. McClamrock also considers the broader philosophical question of the place of mind in the world, particularly with regard to questions of intentionality, subjectivity, and phenomenology. With implications for philosophy, cognitive and computer science, artificial intelligence, and psychology, this book synthesizes state-of-the-art work in philosophy and cognitive science on how the mind interacts with the world to produce thoughts, ideas, and actions.
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Philosophy of mind.
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Philosophy and cognitive science.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Existential phenomenology.
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Cognition-- Philosophy.
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BD418.3.M36 1995
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