The Mind's New Science: A History Of The Cognitive Revolution

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Basic Books, Aug 5, 2008 - Psychology - 352 pages
The first full-scale history of cognitive science, this work addresses a central issue: What is the nature of knowledge?
 

Contents

What the Meno Wrought
3
Laying the Foundation for Cognitive Science
10
The First Decades
28
A HISTORICAL
47
Empiricist Responses to Descartes
54
The LogicalEmpiricist Program
60
Is Epistemology Necessary?
71
Fresh Approaches to Epistemology
78
The Special Status of Language and Linguistics
234
Ethnoscience
244
Psychological Forays
253
The Flirtation with Reductionism
260
Donald Hebbs Bold Synthesis
271
Studies of Two Systems
278
Will Neuroscience Devour Cognitive Science?
285
Introduction
291

The Dialectic Role of Philosophy
86
Scientific Psychology in the Nineteenth Century
98
The Early Twentieth Century
105
A View from Above
111
The Expert Tool 1 38
138
The Search for Autonomy
182
A Tentative Evaluation
218
Edward Tylor Launches the Discipline of Anthropology
227
A Figment of the Imagination?
323
A World Categorized
340
How Rational a Being?
360
The Computational Paradox and
381
REFERENCES
401
N AME IN DEX 41 7
422
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Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. The author of more than twenty books and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and twenty-one honorary degrees, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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