Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science

by Margaret A. Boden

Book Overview

Cognitive science endeavours to understand the mind by modelling its workings. It covers a range of aspects of mind, not just 'cognition' in the sense of knowledge or reasoning, but emotion, personality, social communication, and action. This set introduces the key ideas of cognitive science and the people who developed them.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019929237X
• ISBN13: 9780199292370
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 2 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.