Mental States, Volume 1Andrea C. Schalley, Drew Khlentzos John Benjamins Publishing, 2007 - 304 pages Collecting the work of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, archaeologists, artificial intelligence researchers and philosophers this volume presents a richly varied picture of the nature and function of mental states. Starting from questions about the cognitive capacities of the early hominin homo floresiensis, the essays proceed to the role mental representations play in guiding the behaviour of simple organisms and robots, thence to the question of which features of its environment the human brain represents and the extent to which complex cognitive skills such as language acquisition and comprehension are impaired when the brain lacks certain important neural structures. Other papers explore topics ranging from nativism to the presumed constancy of categorization across signed and spoken languages, from the formal representation of metaphor, actions and vague language to philosophical questions about conceptual schemes and colours. Anyone interested in mental states will find much to reward them in this fine volume. |
Table des matières
Evolution function nature | 1 |
Implications | 35 |
Shape and colour in language and thought 37 | 37 |
Some early implications for the evolution | 43 |
Evolving artificial minds and brains | 75 |
Multiagent communication planning and collaboration based | 95 |
Taste as a gateway to Chinese cognition | 109 |
The modallogical interpretation of the causation of bodily actions | 123 |
Language skills in a young adult | 171 |
Interaction between language and cognition in language development | 173 |
Ontologies as a cue for the metaphorical meaning of technical concepts | 191 |
Antirealist assumptions and challenges in philosophy of mind | 213 |
Vagueness supertranslatability and conceptual schemes | 233 |
What | 247 |
Hidden units in child language | 275 |
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