The Mind's New Science
Book description
The first full-scale history of cognitive science, this work addresses a central issue: What is the nature of knowledge?
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1 author picked The Mind's New Science as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A comprehensive account by a pioneer of the discipline.
This book provides an overview of the relatively new discipline (in 1975) of “cognitive science,” so much so that I wondered whether I should have switched over from philosophy (I did not). It displays the breadth and depth of the discipline, which convinced me that one could no more be an expert in cognitive science in general than an expert in physics in general, biology in general, or philosophy in general.
This book is certainly a must-read for anyone interested either in the discipline itself or even in a corner of…
From James' list on the nature and capacities of our bilateral minds.
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