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Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature: Value Inquiry Book Series / Cognitive Science, cartea 303

Autor Prakash Mondal
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 aug 2017
In Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature Prakash Mondal attempts to demonstrate that language can reveal the hidden logical texture of diverse types of mentality in non-humans, contrary to popular belief. The widely held assumption in mainstream cognitive science is that language being humanly unique introduces an anthropomorphic bias in investigations into the nature of other possible minds. This book turns this around by formulating a lattice of mental structures distilled from linguistic structures constituting the cognitive building blocks of an ensemble of biological entities/beings. This turns out to have surprising consequences for machine cognition as well. Challenging mainstream views, this book will appeal to cognitive scientists, philosophers of mind, linguists and also cognitive ethologists.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004316652
ISBN-10: 9004316655
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Value Inquiry Book Series / Cognitive Science


Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgements

1 Introduction
1.1 On Minds and Mental Structures
1.2 A Note on the Methodology
1.3 Why Natural Language?
1.4 Summary

2 Natural Language and the Linguistic Foundations of Mind
2.1 Language as a Window onto Thought and Reasoning
2.2 Language as Conceptualization
2.3 Language as a Mental Tool
2.4 The Expressive Power of Natural Language and Ineffability
2.5 Summary

3 Possible Minds from Natural Language
3.1 Linguistic Structures and Mental Structures
3.2 Mental Structures and the Forms of Possible Minds
3.3 Summary

4 Natural Language, Machines and Minds
4.1 Machines and Minds
4.2 Computation and Natural Language
4.3 Summary

5 Possible Minds and the Cognitive
5.1 Summary

6 Conclusion
References
Index

Notă biografică

Prakash Mondal, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He is the author of Language, Mind and Computation (Palgrave, 2014) and Language and Cognitive Structures of Emotion (Palgrave, 2016) and Language, Biology and Cognition (completed).