Natural and Artificial Minds

Robert G. Burton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia.

• Preface 1. Approaches to Mind Robert G. Burton 2. On the Nature of Theories: A Neurocomputational Perspective Paul M. Churchland 3. Connectionism and the Future of Folk Psychology William Bechtel and A. A. Abrahamsen 4. Squirrel Monkeys, Concepts, and Logic Roger K. Thomas 5. Connecting the Cognitive and the Cultural: Artificial Minds as Methodological Devices in the Study of the Sociocultural Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson 6. Without Perception, There Is No Knowledge: Implications for Artificial Intelligence Ulric Neisser 7. On the Phenomenology of Remembering: The Neglected Case of Place Memory Edward S. Casey 8. The Owl and the Electric Encyclopedia Brian Cantwell Smith 9. Reduction, Elimination, and Strategic Interdependence Robert G. Burton Contributors

"One rarely sees books in cognitive science that include the ecological, phenomenological, and behavioral approaches to the study of the mind. Cognitive science is currently one of the more exciting and productive areas of interdisciplinary research, and this book makes an important contribution to this field. I especially think that philosophers of the mind and psychology could learn a great deal about the range of approaches to the study of mind that are being practiced. Many workers in these areas are not aware that there are psychologists working on research that is outside the strictly functionalist/computationalist paradigm." — Stephen M. Downes, Northwestern University