The Turing Test is part of the vocabulary of popular culture -- it has appeared in works ranging from the Broadway play "Breaking the Code" to the comic strip "Robotman." The writings collected by Stu
Mind Readings is a collection of accessible readings on some of the most importanttopics in cognitive science. Although anyone interested in the interdisciplinary study of mind willfind the selections
At the 1994 landmark conference "Toward a Scientific Basis for Consciousness",philosopher David Chalmers distinguished between the "easy" problems and the "hard" problem ofconsciousness research. Acco
Newton/Descartes. Einstein/Godel. The seventeenth century had its scientific andphilosophical geniuses. Why shouldn't ours have them as well? Kurt Godel was indisputably one of thegreatest thinkers of
The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new c
What is the difference between a wink and a blink? The answer is important not onlyto philosophers of mind, for significant moral and legal consequences rest on the distinctionbetween voluntary and in
The realistic spirit, a nonmetaphysical approach to philosophical thought concernedwith the character of philosophy itself, informs all of the discussions in these essays byphilosopher Cora Diamond. D
Technology is becoming molecularly precise. Nanotechnology, otherwise known as molecular engineering, will soon create effective machines as small as DNA. This capacity to manipulate matter -- to prog
In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind. More than anything else, he argues, it is the neglect of consciousness that results
The Generative Lexicon presents a novel and exciting theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the "multiplicity of word meaning"; that is, how we are able to give an infini
Since the publication of Ericsson and Simon's ground-breaking work in the early1980s, verbal data has been used increasingly to study cognitive processes in many areas ofpsychology, and concurrent and
Philosophers from Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein to the recent realists and antirealists have sought to answer the question, What are concepts? This book provides a detailed, systematic, and accessible
Since its founding in 1989 by Terrence Sejnowski, Neural Computation has become the leading journal in the field. Foundations of Neural Computation collects, by topic, the most significant papers that
This posthumous volume, the culmination of a long and distinguished career, brings together an original essay by the author together with a careful selection of previously published articles (most by
This textbook provides a thorough introduction to the field of learning from experimental data and soft computing. Support vector machines (SVM) and neural networks (NN) are the mathematical structure
Cellular Biophysics is a quantitatively oriented basic physiology text for senior undergraduate and graduate students in bioengineering, biophysics, physiology, and neuroscience programs. It will also
Cellular Biophysics is a quantitatively oriented basic physiology text for senior undergraduate and graduate students in bioengineering, biophysics, physiology, and neuroscience programs. It will also
In The Allure of Machinic Life, John Johnston examines new forms of nascent life that emerge through technical interactions within human-constructed environments—"machinic life"&mdash
In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution, the brain, behavioral
Hao Wang (1921-1995) was one of the few confidants of the great mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel. A Logical Journey is a continuation of Wang's Reflections on Gödel
