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Groundbreaking essays and commentaries on the ways that recent findings in psychology and neuroscience illuminate virtue and character and related issues in philosophy.Philosophers have discussed virt

In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyzeevery option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Mostof us would pro

Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one another. To substantiate this controversial claim, this landmark work develops in depth a cognitive architecture based in neural computation but supporting formally explicit higher-level symbolic descriptions, including new grammar formalisms.Detailed studies in both phonology and syntax provide arguments that these grammatical theories and their neural network realizations enable deeper explanations of early acquisition, processing difficulty, cross-linguistic typology, and the possibility of genomically encoding universal principles of grammar. Foundational questions concerning the explanatory status of symbols for central problems such as the unbounded productivity of higher cognition are also given proper treatment.The work is made accessible to scholars in different fields of cognitive science through tu

A study of the philosophical implications of evolutionary psychology, suggesting that knowledge is a set of natural kinds housed in the modules of a massively modular mind. In Reconstructing Reason

Doreen Kimura provides an intelligible overview of what is known about the neural andhormonal bases of sex differences in behavior, particularly differences in cognitive ability.

At the age of 19 Ian Waterman was suddenly struck down at work by a rare neurologicalillness that deprived him of all sensation below the neck. He fell on the floor in a heap, unable tostand or contro

People commonly use age to categorize and stereotype others--even though those who stereotype the elderly are eventually bound to become elderly themselves. Ageism is found cross-culturally, but it is

The computer analogy of the mind has been as widely adopted in contemporary cognitiveneuroscience as was the analogy of the brain as a collection of organs in phrenology. Just as thephrenologist would

Modern psychology began with the adoption of experimental methods at the end of thenineteenth century: Wilhelm Wundt established the first formal laboratory in 1879; universitiescreated independent ch

The phenomena of effortless attention and action and the challenges they pose tocurrent cognitive models of attention and action.

What is a self? Does it exist in reality or is it a mere social construct—or is it perhaps a neurologically induced illusion? The legitimacy of the concept of the self has been questioned by bo

Emergence, largely ignored just thirty years ago, has become one of the liveliest areas of research in both philosophy and science. Fueled in part by advances in complexity theory, artificial life, p

Robot motion planning has become a major focus of robotics. Research findings can be applied not only to robotics but to planning routes on circuit boards, directing digital actors in computer graphi

In this provocative book, Paul Glimcher argues that economic theory may provide analternative to the classical Cartesian model of the brain and behavior. Glimcher argues thatCartesian dualism operates

A more comprehensive version of evolutionary theory that focuses as much on theorigin of biological form as on its diversification.

The philosophy of perception is a microcosm of the metaphysics of mind. Its central problems—What is perception? What is the nature of perceptual consciousness? How can one fit an account of pe

In this book, Gary William Flake develops in depth the simple idea that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviors. Distinguishing "agents" (e.g., molecules, cells, animals, and speci

Being-in-the-World is a guide to one of the most influential philosophical works of this century

A comprehensive survey of artificial intelligence algorithms and programming organization for robot systems, combining theoretical rigor and practical applications.This textbook offers a comprehensive

The significantly expanded and updated new edition of a widely used text on reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence.Reinforcement learning, one of the

How do children begin to use language? How does knowledge of language emerge in early infancy, and how does it grow? This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to knowledge acquisition, drawing

Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from thoseof our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology,life history, so

If we are material beings living in a material world -- and all the scientificevidence suggests that we are -- then we must find existential meaning, if there is such a thing, inthis physical world. W

Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? In their famous 1998 paper"The Extended Mind," philosophers Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers posed this question andanswered it provocatively:

Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million

An exploration of embodied intelligence and its implications points toward a theory of intelligence in general; with case studies of intelligent systems in ubiquitous computing, business and managemen

Cognitive science approaches the study of mind and intelligence from an interdisciplinary perspective, working at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, lin

Divorce rates are at an all-time high. But without a theoretical understanding of the processes related to marital stability and dissolution, it is difficult to design and evaluate new marriage inter

Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, asynthetic creature and not merely a sophisticated tool. A sociable robot will be able to understandus, to communicate an

Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past experiences to our present interactions with the environment, they enable us to recognize and understand ne

In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of howour contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness andpsychological health. Other

Richard Cytowic's dinner host apologized, "There aren't enough points on the chicken!" He felt flavor also as a physical shape in his hands, and the chicken had come out "too round.&qu

Why do we cry at the movies? What is the best way to manage destructive feelings such as jealousy? Although emotions pervade our lives, their nature, causes, and effects have only recently been studi

What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and therich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culturehave it? What are

A guide to machine learning approaches and their application to the analysis ofbiological data.

Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems ofsentential and first-order logic. The text is designed to foster the student-instructorrelationship. The key concepts are l

This book revolutionizes how vision can be taught to undergraduate and graduate students in cognitive science, psychology, and optometry. It is the first comprehensive textbook on vision to reflect t

Brain, body, and world are united in a complex dance of circular causation and extended computational activity. In Being There, Andy Clark weaves these several threads into a pleasing whole and goes

Intended for anyone attempting to find their way through the large and confusingly interwoven philosophical literature on consciousness, this reader brings together most of the principal texts in phi

"Machines who think -- how utterly preposterous," huff beleaguered humanists,defending their dwindling turf. "Artificial Intelligence -- it's here and about to surpass our own,"crow techno-visionaries