Mind, Body, World: Foundations of Cognitive Science

by Michael R.W. Dawson

Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to the field's immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition is information processing, cognitive science initially seemed more unified than psychology. However, as a result of differing interpretations of the foundational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927356172
• ISBN13: 9781927356173
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Athabasca University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.9"