Cognitive Science and the Mind-Body Problem: From Philosophy to Psychology to Artificial Intelligence to Imaging of the Brain - Hardcover

by Morton Wagman (Author)

A scholarly examination of the centrality of the mind-body problem within and across the science of cognition--from philosophy to psychology to artificial intelligence to neural science. Conceptions of the mind-body problem range from the heritage of Cartesianism to the identification of the circumscribed brain structures responsible for domain specific cognitive mechanisms. Neither narrowly technical nor philosophically vague, this is a structured and detailed account of advancing intellectual developments in theory, research, and knowledge illumined by the conceptual vicissitudes of the mind-body problem. This unique treatment will be of special interest to creative scholars in the disciplines of he sciences of cognition.

Author Biography

MORTON WAGMAN is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology. He was honored as Distinguished Psychologist by the American Psychological Association in 1990. His most recent books include: The General Unified Theory of Intelligence (1997), Cognitive Science and the Symbolic Operations of Human and Artificial Intelligence (1997), Human Intellect and Cognitive Science (1996), The Sciences of Cognition (1995), Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence (1993), all published by Praeger.