Neurocognitive Mechanisms: Explaining Biological Cognition 1st Edition Gualtiero Piccinini

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198866283
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198866282
• Author(s): Gualtiero Piccinini

In Neurocognitive Mechanisms Gualtiero Piccinini presents the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive philosophical defence to date of the computational theory of cognition. His view posits that cognition involves neural computation within multilevel neurocognitive mechanisms, and includes novel ideas about ontology, functions, neural representation, neural computation, and consciousness. He begins by defending an ontologically egalitarian account of composition and realization, according to which all levels are equally real. He then explicates multiple realizability and mechanisms within this ontologically egalitarian framework, defends a goal-contribution account of teleological functions, and defends a mechanistic version of functionalism. This provides the foundation for a mechanistic account of computation, which in turn clarifies the ways in which the computational theory of cognition is a multilevel mechanistic theory supported by contemporary cognitive neuroscience.

Table contents:

Introduction
1. Levels of Being
2. Mechanisms, Multiple Realizability, and Medium Independence
3. Functional Mechanisms
4. Mechanistic Functionalism
5. The First Computational Theory of Cognition: McCulloch and Pitts’s “A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity”
6. Computation and Information Processing
7. Mechanistic Models of Cognition: From Autonomy to Integration
8. The Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution
9. The Computational Theory of Cognition
10. The Church–Turing Fallacy
11. The Resilience of the Computational Theory of Cognition
12. Neural Representation
13. Neural Computation
14. Computation and the Function of Consciousness
Bibliography
Index

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