What is cognitive science?

• Acknowledgments

• Introduction

• Suggestions on How to Read and Teach This Book

• Some Preliminaries

• 1.1
• Research Frameworks

• 1.2
• An Example of Cognitive Science Research

• 1.3
• The Characterization in Brief

• The Domain and the Basic Questions

• 2.1
• The Identification Assumption

• 2.2
• The Property Assumptions

• 2.3
• The Grouping Assumption

• 2.4
• The Basic Questions

• The Computational Assumption

• 3.1
• The Computational Linking Assumption

• 3.2
• The Computational System Assumption

• 3.3
• Conventional Machines

• 3.4
• Connectionist Machines

• 3.5
• The Evolution of Cognitive Science

• Representation in General

• 4.1
• The Representational Linking Assumption

• 4.2
• Peirce's Triadic Analysis

• 4.3
• The Representation-Object Relation

• 4.4
• The Representation-Interpretant Relation

• 4.5
• The Representational System Assumption

• Mental Representation

• 5.1
• What Mental Representations Are Not

• 5.2
• The Representation Bearer

• 5.3
• The Semantics of Mental Representation

• Current Approaches to Content Determination

• 6.1
• Grounding Mental Content

• 6.2
• The Structural Isomorphism Approach

• 6.3
• The Functional Role Approach

• 6.4
• The Causal Historical Approach

• 6.5
• The Indicator Approach

• 6.6
• The Biological Function Approach

• Constraints on a Theory of Content Determination

• 7.1
• Naturalism

• 7.2
• The Descriptive Case against Internalism

• 7.3
• A Normative Case for Internalism

• 7.4
• Methodological Individualism*

• Significance

• 8.1
• Peirce's View

• 8.2
• The Regress Problem in Cognitive Science

• 8.3
• An Inadequate Solution

• 8.4
• Cognitive Science's Solution

• The Methodological Assumptions

• 9.1
• The Explanatory Strategy of Cognitive Science

• 9.2
• The Study of Cognition

• 9.3
• The Role of Neuroscience

• 9.4
• Explanatory Ineliminability

• Epilogue: Some Challenges for the Future

• Appendix: Characterizing an Immature Science

• A.1
• The Logical Positivist Tradition

• A.2
• Kuhn's Notion of a Paradigm

• A.3
• Laudan's Notion of a Research Tradition

• Notes

• Glossary

• Abbreviations

• Technical Terms

• References

• Sumpplementary Readings

• Index