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Grounds for cognition : how goal-guided behavior shapes the mind
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Grounds for cognition : how goal-guided behavior shapes the mind

Author: Radu J Bogdan
Publisher: Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1994.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Radu J Bogdan
ISBN: 0805815910 9780805815917 0805815929 9780805815924
OCLC Number: 29846736
Description: xii, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The teleoevolutionary stance. By way of means and ends. An Ur role for goals ; Natural selection ; Teleogenetics ; Teleological parameters ; Goal as outcome programmed ; The relative unimportance of causal and functional realizations ; The merits and handicaps of teleology --
The guidance equation. An unfinished agenda ; Knowledge ; Information ; Implications of information ; Constraints on guidance ; The job of equation. Forms of guidance. Telenomic guidance. The metabolic parallel ; Teleonomic tasks : bacterial scripts ; Artificial teleonomy ; The explanation of simple cognition ; Transition --
Primitive semantics. The very idea of primitive semantics ; Semantic upgradings ; How it works ; Behavioral categorization ; Topomaps ; Critical recapitulation --
Intimations of re-presentation : vision. Vision is semantic ; What is visual perception up to? ; The ambivalence of vision ; Re-presentation ; Uptake --
Mental guidance. Conceptualization ; Goal scripting ; The proximate hand of teleology ; Cognition by different means ; Mental attitudes ; Imagery and symbolic ecologies ; Summing up : the teleopragmatic psyche --
Social guidance. Commonsense teleology ; Making sense of others ; The incoherence of the propositional attitude. Implications. Psychosemanticism. Content as information task ; Content as state ; Content by evolution ; The psychosemantics of thinking --
Prospects for explanation. Discipline through evolution ; Subsumptive explanation ; The challenge of cogitation ; Assimilation ; What to explain and in how much detail?
Responsibility: Radu J. Bogdan.

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