Cognitive Science And The Mind Body Problem

Download or read book Cognitive Science and the Mind-Body Problem written by Morton Wagman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-03-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly examination of the centrality of the mind-body problem within and across the science of cognition—from philosophy to psychology to artificial intelligence to neural science. Conceptions of the mind-body problem range from the heritage of Cartesianism to the identification of the circumscribed brain structures responsible for domain specific cognitive mechanisms. Neither narrowly technical nor philosophically vague, this is a structured and detailed account of advancing intellectual developments in theory, research, and knowledge illumined by the conceptual vicissitudes of the mind-body problem. This unique treatment will be of special interest to creative scholars in the disciplines of he sciences of cognition.