Dear Org Learners,
[Hi, two new books on "The Cognition and Development of Discovery
Processes" and "The Geometry of Thought" are available from MIT Press.
With this, I would also like to recommend you three more books one of John
H. Holland, *Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory
Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial
Intelligence* (Published by MIT Press, 1992) and other of John Haugeland,
*Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea* (Published also by MIT Press,
1989) --John Haugeland has also edited a book *Mind Design II: Philosophy,
Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press, 1997) Thank you, Best,
Arun]
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Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 13:15:23 GMT
From: "Cognition, Brain and Behavior Editorial"<cognition_brain_behavior@mitpress.mit.edu>
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This message is one of a series of periodic mailings about newly released
books in cognition, brain, and behavior.
Follow the URLs below to our catalog for contents, abstracts, and
ordering information.
Exploring Science
The Cognition and Development of Discovery Processes
David Klahr
with Kevin Dunbar, Anne L. Fay, David Penner, and Christian D. Schunn
foreword by Herbert A. Simon
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/KLAEHS00>
Einstein said that "the whole of science is nothing more than a
refinement of everyday thinking." David Klahr suggests that we now know
enough about cognition--and hence about everyday thinking--to advance our
understanding of scientific thinking. In this book he sets out to
describe the cognitive and developmental processes that have enabled
scientists to make the discoveries that comprise the body of information
we call "scientific knowledge."
6 x 9, 256 pp., ISBN 29 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-11248-5
A Bradford Book
Conceptual Spaces
The Geometry of Thought
Peter Gärdenfors
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/GARCHS00>
Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem
of modeling representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as
computation involving symbolic manipulation. Connectionism, a special
case of associationism, models associations using artificial neuron
networks. Peter Gärdenfors offers his theory of conceptual
representations as a bridge between the symbolic and connectionist
approaches.
6 x 9, 320 pp., 72 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-07199-1
A Bradford Book
--Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
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