Author: Alexander Riegler
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: representation, reality, need, cognitive, understanding, sciences
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $225.00
ISBN-10: 0306462869
ISBN-13: 9780306462863

This volume argues in favor of rethinking basic issues in cognitive science in the context of recent developments. Some issues that are investigated include: the importance of simulation as a methodological tool for theory development in cognitive science, the necessity of linguistic transparency in models of cognition, and the embodiment of knowledge in its substratum, for example, in neural structure. The volume sketches the epistemological and methodological implications for cognitive science and its related disciplines. These issues include the evolution of semantics and symbol gro

Authors:Hugh Clapin, Phillip Staines, Peter Slezak,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: representation, perspectives, cognitive, science, mental, approaches, mind, volume, new
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2004-06-18
List price: $114.00
ISBN-10: 008044394X
ISBN-13: 9780080443942

’Representation in Mind’ is the first book in the new series ’Perspectives on Cognitive Science’ and includes well known contributors in the areas of philosophy of mind, psychology and cognitive science.The papers in this volume offer new ideas, fresh approaches and new criticisms of old ideas. The papers deal in new ways with fundamental questions concerning the problem of mental representation that one contributor, Robert Cummins, has described as "THE problem in philosophy of mind for some time now". The editors’ introductory overview considers the problem for

Authors:Zongzhu Lin, Jianpan Wang,
Publisher: Amer Mathematical Society
Keywords: representation, theory, china, mathematics, lhasa, contemporary, conference, fourth, international, july
Number of Pages: 295
Published: 2009-02-15
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 0821845551
ISBN-13: 9780821845554

Author: Joint Summer Research Conference on Trends in the
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: representation, trends, research, summer, conference, july, mathematics, contemporary, joint, ims, finite, theory, dimensional, algebras, ams, proceedings, siam
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1998-06
List price: $87.00
ISBN-10: 0821809288
ISBN-13: 9780821809280

This refereed collection of research papers and survey articles reflects the interplay of finite-dimensional algebras with other areas (algebraic geometry, homological algebra, and the theory of quantum groups). Current trends are presented from the discussions at the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference at the University of Washington (Seattle). The volume features several excellent expository articles which will introduce the beginning researcher to cutting-edge topics in representation theory. The book will also provide inspiration to researchers in related areas

Author: Elaine Scarry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: representation, resisting
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1994-09-29
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195089642
ISBN-13: 9780195089646

Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry’s book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag "extraordinary...large-spirited, heroically truthful." The Los Angeles Times called it "brilliant, ambitious, and controversial." Now Oxford has collected some of Scarry’s most provocative writing. This collection of essays deals with the complicated problems of representation in diverse literary and cultural genres--from her beloved sixth-century philosopher Boethius, through the nineteenth-century novel, to twentieth-century advertising. qWe often assume that all areas of experience are equal

Author: Hanna F. Pitki
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: representation, concept
Number of Pages: 329
Published: 1972-02-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520021568
ISBN-13: 9780520021563

Author: Arthur B. Markma
Publisher: Psychology Pre
Keywords: representation, knowledge
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1998-11-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0805824413
ISBN-13: 9780805824414

Knowledge representation is fundamental to the study of mind. All theories of psychological processing are rooted in assumptions about how information is stored. These assumptions, in turn, influence the explanatory power of theories. This book fills a gap in the existing literature by providing an overview of types of knowledge representation techniques and their use in cognitive models. Organized around types of representations, this book begins with a discussion of the foundations of knowledge representation, then presents discussions of different ways that knowledge representation has be